Words matter. These are the best Political Debate Quotes from famous people such as Geert Wilders, Johann Lamont, Dennis Prager, Esther McVey, George Osborne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won’t lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I’m more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people’s everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments we elect have a real impact on how we live.
The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
What is the role of an academic – no matter what they’re teaching – within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It’s not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
I’ve slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
While imperfect, the electoral college has generally served the republic well. It forces candidates to campaign in a variety of closely contested races, where political debate is typically robust.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.
Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don’t want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don’t, but they should.
As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn’t get pregnant.
Ultimately if you’re a journalist, one day you’re writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.
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.
When you don’t have accountability, there’s no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
