Debates Quotes

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(told by David Gergen that many were surprised by how well he "elucidated") Well, David, I think I benefit from the same thing that helped George W. Bush in the (2000) debates, which is tremendously low expectations.

- Ben Affleck

I wanted to see the debates and I believe in the quality of the argument. I don`t vote party line. I vote for the best person. I am a purist.

- Kevin Costner

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they`re welcome. The books aren`t there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

- John Scott

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

- Pervez Musharraf

I was in the forefront of that discussion for many years and as chairman and president of the European Film Academy had many long debates over this.

- Wim Wenders

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

- Robert Nelson

One of the features of our annual meeting is that all the members gather in person to have face-to-face discussions about such subjects as breeding policies, canine health issues and testing programs. For example, we have discussed the prospects of including the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association`s `utility test` to go along with the `natural ability` test we already now use in qualifying our dogs for our club`s breeding program. Likewise, there have been some useful debates on how to sanction any breeders who have dogs with serious genetic defects.

- Tom McDonald

(DES MOINES, Iowa -- Plans for a live debate on the eve of Saturday`s Iowa straw poll have been canceled after only three candidates -- former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, commentator Pat Buchanan and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah -- agreed to participate. WOI-TV agreed to hold the debate only if six candidates signed on. It was also to be carried by KCAU-TV in Sioux City and WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.) Obviously, we`re very disappointed given the fact that many of these candidates in their appearances throughout the state in recent times have stated that there ought to be forums, there ought to be debates for the candidates to air their views, ... When push came to shove and we presented a forum ... many of the candidates balked or simply didn`t respond.

- Jim Parker

Some people date the first debates about information technology and ethics to the 1950s, but the field really exploded in the 1990s.

- Michael Quinn

I`ve been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

- Susan Estrich

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

- Aislinn Ryan

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation`s seniors. We`re not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

- Al Nigrin

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

- Alex Kipp

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

- Alex Ramirez

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn`t the point.

- Aliza Herzberg

I think it`s really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

- Allen Alley

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

- Amy Swiderski

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

- Andrea Gaston

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

- Andrei Illarionov

In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent families are better for children than one-parent families, ... But a number of studies now suggest that the well-being of children in mother-stepfather families is no greater, on average, than in single-parent families.

- Andy Lally

The ebb and flow of these things can change. These kinds of personality debates can be not only a distraction, but they can cause people to divide over very unusual purposes.

- Ann Patterson

One of the tests of leadership in a diverse society is that you not allow issues like this -- which are complex -- to boil over into angry, polarized debates,

- Arthur Bryan

If we look at the bigger picture, what Iraq has now ... (is) very peaceful debates over the constitution - very, very passionate debates, very emotional debates, but nonetheless largely peaceful.

- Atsuo Saito

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don`t want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party's base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

- Senator John Kerry