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• It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

  J. William Fulbright

  Voice, Speech, Exhilaration

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

  "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!

  Richard Dawkins

  Looks, Might, Resumes

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

  Tim Robbins

  Clever, Should Have, Cities

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• This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Mean, Minimum Wage, Employers

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• In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

  Duke Ellington

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

  Armie Hammer

  World, Not Sure, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The debate on climate change and global warming has been intensely polarized. A great deal of this 'noise' has clouded the very real and emerging issues that we as an industry and society need to address.

  Johnny Chan

  Real, Issues, Climate

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• There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

  Joe Scarborough

  Morning, People, Argument

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• 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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Team, School, Chess

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• I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

  Jeremy Northam

  Memories, Drama, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

  Ted Haggard

  Thinking, Should, Homosexual

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• This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

  Newt Gingrich

  Real, Thinking, Cities

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2006.

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• I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. I will vote in its elections and participate in its political debates. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order.

  Lawrence Auster

  Country, Government, Order

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• All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

  Irina Bokova

  Government, Voice, Democracy

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• I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.

  Ian Harvie

  Identity, Feels Right, Collectors

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• This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left.

  Kirsten Powers

  Inability, Cards, Calling

  "Fox News’ evangelical Democrat: An interview with Kirsten Powers". Interview withJonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. April 10, 2013.

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• While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.

  Seiji Maehara

  Race, People, Needs

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• After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Ohio

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• There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Political

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• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

  John McCain

  Torture, Bin Laden

  "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" by John McCain, www.washingtonpost.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there.

  John McCain

  Differences, Proud, Conservative

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