The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.
Don’t tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don’t debate it.
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
It’s not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
My high school experience was kind of like ‘Mean Girls.’ It was very much like a bad B movie. ‘This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.’ And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
The Trudeau government increasingly avoids debate on important national issues by demonizing people who disagree with them.
Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
I have… been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration… there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.
The word ‘tolerance’ once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don’t need bipartisanship, we need application of principle… Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn’t about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.
I don’t know if I’d call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
There is no debate that the H-2A program needs significant reform. Increasing access, so that farmers and workers are able to meet their labor needs is incredibly important, especially in NC-11 where agriculture represents a pillar of our local economy.
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.
If you don’t accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.
As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.
I believe in reasoned debate.
Climate change – we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.
The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
If you believe in democracy, the overreach of leaders is a good reminder that vigorous public debate and time-consuming due process are not only more fair and more just, but that over the long term they usually produce better government, too.
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it’s no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
Like ‘God’s Not Dead,’ the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, ‘Transcendence’ is essentially a dramatized debate. And as ‘God’s Not Dead’ stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity’s existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.
The separation of audience into tribes preferring to reinforce their own views with media of similar ideological stripe makes true debate impossible.
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren’t allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.
I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice – and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
When you’ve got people taking opposite positions just to create a debate, viewers can see through it.
The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there is a debate: What is going to make our communities safe? How do we deal with harm? How do we solve problems that come up in our communities?
For me, the most ironic aspect of the Brexit debate has been right-wing Brexiteers speaking loftily about parliamentary sovereignty, when they have never backed MPs having a fuller involvement in how our country is run.
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
I love a spirited debate.
If a woman MP’s choice of clothing becomes a topic of a heated debate, then all the talk of women empowerment is rubbish.
You know what ‘DOUBT’ stands for? It stands for ‘Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.’
Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
There’s a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who’s feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
The debate over same sex ‘marriage’ has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion.
Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family’s right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family’s last goodbye is not it.
While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?
