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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.

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On slower days, when I was only needed for coverage or reaction shots, the set of 'The Newsroom' was better than therapy. Chris Chalk and I would debate life's dilemmas... until Sam Waterston would chime in and set us both...

Quotes by Adina Porter

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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of...

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

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If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Quotes by Wolfgang Schauble

Debatable Quotes

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I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

Quotes by William Odom

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There's always merit to having a debate.

Quotes by Ward Churchill

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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

Quotes by Walker Stapleton

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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

Quotes by Vanessa Kerry

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It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

Quotes by Tom Tancredo

Debated Quotes

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Rather than negotiating yet another continuing resolution at the last minute, the appropriations process should work as it was originally designed, with appropriations bills passing the House and the Senate and being signed into law by the president, after robust...

Quotes by Tom Graves

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.