Quotes About Debate

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an issue I felt strongly about.

Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I believe strongly that as a democrat I should respect the result, and that as a politician it is my duty to make the Brexit settlement as good as possible.

I still strongly support a full repeal of Obamacare.

I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

There are issues in this country that a lot of people feel strongly about.

I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united Europe.

It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.

It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.

It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

People who are for diversity of thought, actually, are okay with hearing some opinions that they don't like. I quite literally see none of that on the Left.

The Left sees no place for differing opinions.

People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make sense; but talking about it is always good.

They want me to stop making my opinions and not saying a word; I know the Left wants that.

I guess football is a game of opinions.

Everyone has their opinions about the Bible and God.

Usually, even when a bill draws extreme opinions, there can be a process of expression and negotiation.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.