Debate Quotes - Page 34

• Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Justice, Climate

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• The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

  John Hodgman

  Yale, Ideas, Feet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Heart, Climate, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

  Henry Hyde

  Mean, Abortion, Understanding

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• I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

  Michael Howard

  Sex, Past, Prime

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• Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General."

  Michael Moore

  Sick, President, Want

  "The Anti-Coulter - Michael Moore is SRO on his book tour" by Barry Bozeman, treasononline.blogspot.com. October 29, 2003.

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• Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.

  Steve Allen

  Gratitude, Religious, Atheist

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Politician, Monetary Policy, Counterproductive

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• As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

  Jose Serrano

  Important, Remember, Legislation

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• Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

  Scott Walker

  Hands, Voice, People

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• Having a debate right now over whether or not to legalize marijuana is kind of like having a debate over whether the sun will come up tomorrow.

  Gary Johnson

  Marijuana, Sun, Tomorrow

  "The Legalization of Marijuana Is Debated at CPAC — Here’s How It Went Down" by Zach Noble, www.theblaze.com. February 26, 2015.

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• While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

  Tim Ryan

  Government, Long, Support

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• You always, I think, debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person that you’re working for - in my instance, the president - your best judgment based on your understanding of the facts, but also the calculus you use to make a determination about what’s the best way to go forward.

  John O. Brennan

  Determination, Giving, Decision

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

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• There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

  Dan Savage

  Religious, Mistake, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Moon, People

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

  Henry Cavill

  Would Be, Internet, Forums

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Party, Responsibility, Grandmother

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Father, Tables, Dinner

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

  Tucker Carlson

  Care, Canada, Firsts

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.

  Stratford Caldecott

  Intelligent, Wings, Progress

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• I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Atheist

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• Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Religious, Names, Impossible

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• Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

  Carl Sagan

  Secret, Looks, Old And New

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