Debate quotes

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◆ It's not about what you say, it's about how you say it. It's not about what comes out of your mouth, it's about the reason behind your word.

- 100

◆ You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

- Lyndon B Johnson99

◆ 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 survive.

- Michael Johns99

◆ Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

- Charles D Ellison99

◆ Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

- Peter Jennings99

◆ Debate is the death of conversation.

- Kitty O'Neill Collins99

◆ Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

- Jesse Jackson99

◆ As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

- Bob Filner99

◆ Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

- Suzanne Fields99

◆ I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

- Clifford Geertz99

◆ Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.

- Kim Beazley99

◆ I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

- Peter Camejo99

◆ There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

- Mark Rutherford99

◆ I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

- Richard M Nixon99

◆ Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

- 99