Quotes of: Debates Keyword

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Barbara Jordan

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

Bill Watterson

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

J. Michael Strazynski

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Dennis Kucinich

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Dan Lipinski

Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

John Tesh

[Samantha just slapped Henry hard across the face] Melvin B. Tolson: Resolved.

The Great Debaters

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz R. Pagels

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Abdallah II of Jordan

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

Alice Paul

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Aldrich Ames

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Bill Delahunt

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

Wolfgang Schauble

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

James McGreevey

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

Dasha Zhukova

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Patrick Chappatte

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Rory Bremner