Quotes About Debate

Discussion in America means dissent.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

False equivalency is the lifeblood of American public debate.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

Some people insist that hallowed professional teams should never change their nicknames.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn't provide leadership, and he has no real experience.

I was talking to so many teenagers for so long that I started to feel like, 'I have my own story I want to tell, and I need to do it soon.' So I started to store away pieces that eventually became 'Speech & Debate.' I felt this burning need to write it while I still had not only all of the ideas but the passion to do it.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

It's dangerous when you start telling people they can't have an opinion on something. And, you know, you don't cancel someone, you engage with someone.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.