Quotes About Debate

There's going to be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

So the problem is not the algorithms, or the big datasets. The problem is a lack of scrutiny, transparency, and debate.

The fact is, as soon as you start with words you're locked into a debate, forced to take a position with respect to others, confirming or rebutting what has been said before.

The debate lasted for thirteen days of private and public sessions during which de Valera behaved as if he were motivated, not by precepts of Republicanism, but by notions of the divine right of kings. One commentator has written: 'Whenever the President wanted to say something he seemed to act almost as if he had a right to determine his own procedure.'87 In all he interrupted the proceedings more than 250 times.

Although a procedural agreement between the pro- and anti-Treaty sides before the debate had given the last word to Griffith, de Valera tried to have the final say by making a melodramatic declaration that the 'document would rise up in judgement

To close the loop entirely, AT&T set about designing its own radio sets, presenting President Coolidge with one of its handsomer models.11 In a final stroke, such as to this day inspires heated debate over network neutrality, AT&T's new radios were engineered to receive only AT&T broadcast frequencies—and, not surprisingly, only AT&T programming.*

Trump suele utilizar para neutralizar a los periodistas, que es la rápida interjección: «Compruebe sus datos, [inserta aquí el nombre del periodista]».

5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.

You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

there certainly are philosophers who take seriously the question of whether numbers exist, and this distinguishes them from mathematicians, who either find it obvious that numbers exist or do not understand what is being asked.

Many treatises have been written on the gulf in thinking between the Greens and Purples that led to the split (if they can ever have been said to be united), but by far the most famous is The Green and the Purple: Strange Bedfellows, an anonymously-penned sequence in the pro-New Tory political magazine The Professional:

It is possible to assemble a roomful of the great and the good from across a city or a region, task them to debate the problems of that region and come up with solutions, and end up with them taking three hours arguing about whether tea or coffee should be served at break time. The success (in their own eyes) of many rulers throughout history has rested upon ensuring there is always a choice of refreshments."–Pablo Sanchez, On Democracy, 1851

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.