Debates Quotes: top 84 famous quotes about Debates

Debates Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Debates quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". — David Pietrusza

These little debates are known as "flamewars. — H.P. Lovecraft

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore

If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound. — Dana Gould

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

There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in. — Donald Trump

Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience. — Dinesh D'Souza

I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage. — Conan O'Brien

But I do think its necessary to have debates. — Geraldine Ferraro

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, — Chris Christie

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates. — Nancy Snow

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful. — Mark McKinnon

I've been very successful at negotiating debates. — Donald Trump

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. — Juan Cole

I've always been very wary of debates involving women. — Tony Abbott

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. — Richie Sambora

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. — John Eldredge

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen. — Russell T. Davies

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. — Eugene Fama

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. — John Stuart Mill

Cultural debates are always conflicts between orthodoxies. — Anonymous

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy. — Scott Clifton

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. — William Penn

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country. — John B. Anderson

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now — Drake

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows. — Mark McKinnon

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. — Diane Abbott

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember. — George W. Bush

In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary. — Ted Cruz

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope. — George H. W. Bush

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. — Rich Lowry

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time. — William J. Clinton

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer. — Chris Hayes

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held. — Judy Woodruff

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time, — Barack Obama

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

Polemical debates happen all the time in France. — Michel Houellebecq

Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one's keyboard. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them. — Stephen Kinzer

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa

I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of goo. — Alan W. Watts

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting

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

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates. — Donald Trump

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is. — Raheel Farooq

In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends. — T. Baggins

There is nothing wrong with being wrong. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am for secret, dark debates. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view. — Kevin Hart

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". — Neil Postman

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. — Jim Lehrer

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day. — Sam Brownback

I can tell you is all nine of the people here [ on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. — Ted Cruz

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading. — Will Advise

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. — Dambisa Moyo

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent. — Criss Jami

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses. — Mark McKinnon

Sandel hankers for the muscular debates of yesteryear, when government was not big but had bigger ambitions than today's bland Leviathan has. — George F. Will

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win. — Jesse Ventura

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors. — Robert A. Caro

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country. — George W. Bush

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone. — Ed Royce

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates — Jean-Claude Juncker

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me. — Edward Snowden

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them. — David Gemmell

You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates. — Chetan Bhagat

I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists. — Dinesh D'Souza

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. — E.B. White

The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates. — David Weber

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game. — Steven Pinker

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy. — John Allen Fraser

Debates are boring. — Mario Cuomo

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — Jim Lehrer

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. — Georg Brandes

If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions. — Umar

I think three debates is good. I think it should be on a night where viewers are going to be able to watch. — Donald Trump

I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry! — Joe Lieberman

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious. — Colin Tudge

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics. — Jean Dreze

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. — Nathan Myhrvold