- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Debate Quotes
On the value and the limits of arguing things out.
This page brings together debate quotes that start from a simple premise, that airing disagreement openly has real merit, before moving into frustration with reform talks that treat serious problems like minor fixes. See also Debates quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
- Heating
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- Nov 07, 2020
5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.
- Financed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
- Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
- Heated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judaism is the best basis for democracy. The debate between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai, the constant debate, has been a tradition of ours for thousands of years.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020