Quotes About Debate

I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek

Everybody who sets out to prove that God exists succeeds and everybody who sets out to prove that God does not exist also succeeds.

I always wonder what the world would be like if all the pro choice people where aborted?

Liberals lie then cry prove us wrong.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

O homem que tem uma experiência nunca ficará à mercê daquele que só tem argumentos.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

That's not true, not grammar, and it doesn't even rhyme properly,' said Snufkin, and the subject was dropped.

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

A lack of healthy conflict is a problem because it ensures the third dysfunction of a team: lack of commitment. Without having aired their opinions in the course of passionate and open debate, team members rarely, if ever, buy in and commit to decisions, though they may feign agreement during meetings.

Our ability to engage in passionate, unfiltered debate about what we need to do to succeed will determine our future as much as any products we develop or partnerships we sign." It

Avoiding the issues that merit debate and disagreement not only makes the meeting boring, it guarantees that the issues won't be resolved. And this is a recipe for frustration. Ironically, that frustration often manifests itself later in the form of unproductive personal conflict, or politics.