Quotes About Debate

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there's another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Well I started out as a dancer, so I was used to this performing - performance arts. Started out getting used to being on stage. As I got a lot older that became public speaking or debate.

It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

I know the pundits don't agree with me.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.

The country is polarised between those who would pursue a hard Brexit, which is where the prime minister is, and Remain.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.