Quotes About Debate

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to build some energy in the room.' 'On Question Time,' the reverse is true. A lot of the time, I am just trying to not have it turn into a slanging match.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems; it hurts the country.

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Just two words are enough to drive away the DMK members from the House. They are running away at the mention of 'Katchatheevu' or 'prohibition.'

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.

Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.

Our God-given right to protect our country, ourselves and our families shouldn't be up for debate.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.