Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must surv...
When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to t...
If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.
Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.
Hyperbole is the common currency of political debate.
Brody's not gay. But then he kisses a boy. So he might be gay? No, Brody's not gay. But he loves this boy. So after much delaying, debating, and waiting, the answer comes clear...nothing is ever perfectly straight. It's slash.
I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversat...
Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
Truth is lost with too much debating.
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.
Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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.
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry. Jerry Lundegaard: Okay. Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna sit here and debate.
