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.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.
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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to...
National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change...
The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.
Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of...
Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have...
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
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One line draws a sharper boundary, arguing that active conflict leaves no room for public argument at all. For more on speaking out, browse Debating quotes.
