Top Debate Quotes

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

Debate Definition

(v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.

(v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.

(v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.

(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.

(v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.

(v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.

(v. t.) Subject of discussion.

If you're engaged more than a year, there's something up. There's lot of debate as to whether one should or shouldn't get married, but when you get engaged, it's a promise to get married, and if you d...

If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, su...

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no...

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debat...

Once a person has made some sort of stable, symbolic connection between two things, the connection will influence his subsequent behavior and will generate its own 'proof.' This is why it is idle and...

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divi...

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes...

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.