Debate Quotes

• Kofi Annan has already been instrumental in pushing forward that debate in the United Nations. I firmly support his efforts. A successful United Nations Summit next week presents the international community with a real opportunity to secure the necessary change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Moral

• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Exist
  • Debate

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

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Society
  • Tolerance

• During last night's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee got a big laugh when he said that Congress has been spending money like John Edwards at a beauty salon. Then Huckabee got an even bigger laugh when he said he's running for president

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Money
  • Night
  • Running

• There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Past
  • King
  • Conflict

• Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Term
  • Debate
  • Altered

• During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • May
  • Together

• I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Opinion
  • Difference
  • Debate

• At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  

  Charles Lemert
  • Book
  • Ideas
  • Debate

• What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Debate
  • Discussion
  • Provoking

• If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Questions
  • Debate

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• There is clearly going to be a lot of debate and a lot of compromises before we get a final product.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Product
  • Final
  • Compromises

• We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Why
  • Reasons
  • Debate

• I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • Economy
  • Immigration
  • Debate

• Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Debate
  • Disagree

• In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that.

  

  Doug McMillon
  • Debate
  • Caught Up
  • Inequity

• Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Control
  • Involved
  • Shots

• Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

  

  Dan Rather
  • American
  • Law
  • Constitution

• We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Speed
  • Noise
  • Deliberation

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