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• 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 Fields

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Debate

• We’ve become more tolerant because we’re tired of the debate.

  Suzanne Fields

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate

• That’s what we’re missing. We’re missing argument. We’re missing debate. We’re missing colloquy. We’re missing all sorts of things. Instead, we’re accepting.

  Studs Terkel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argument, Debate

• Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that’s the atmosphere in which you administer.

  George P. Shultz

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Debate

• When you’re talking about a trade you’re saying, ‘Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?’ That kind of debate is great for the game.

  Roger Goodell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Trade

• I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate

• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Debate

• Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Perfect

• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  Garet Garrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Controversy, Act, Debate

• Let’s start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

  Ed Miliband

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Debate

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

   

  Charles D. Ellison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Torture

• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Debate, Longer

• One can always debate questions back and forth.

  Robert Bourassa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question, Debate

• There’s always merit to having a debate.

  Ward Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Merit, Debate

• This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media’s inability – or unwillingness – to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans, Democrats, Debate

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  Randall Terry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question, Wins, Debate

• I don’t debate with liars.

  Evo Morales

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Liars

• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Leaders, Debate, Doubt, Solution

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

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Midst, Fighting

• When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Debate, Comment, Formidable, Superfluous, Crux, Worth, Argument