Quotes About Debate

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

As a pastor I understand the power and the possibility of coming together with those with whom we disagree; to have a robust debate on the issues that are important to families and to our country.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost considered working in law enforcement or something like that, but that didn't really last long.

Post globalisation, the debate has been, 'How much more are we going to liberalise?'

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Philosophy was once considered science.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

My books have all generated controversy.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

I think I was born for controversies.