Republican leaders snuck this into a complicated budget bill in the dead of night with no public debate.

In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic.

We would like to take cars out of the environmental debate.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

We have to consider the historical context of this debate,

With a study like this coming from someone like Topol, the debate becomes more apparent to physicians and consumers.

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as...

I think that it will be another factor in the debate ? that wolves can kill people.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

I’ll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.” Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They’re like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They’re organized religion on eight legs.

It is important to open up the dialogue and debate this issue given the pronouncement by the Supreme Court justices coupled with his (Lee’s) desire to ensure that the death penalty remains a policy in...

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, … mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

Recently, the government has agreed to join a debate for which the University Presidents Council of Thailand (UPCT) has offered to act as a mediator.

n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view...

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

What we’re looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated — whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will...

The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth,

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences...

[On CBS’s] Face the Nation, … instead of a debate between the drab and the dreary.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

I thought it was a good, informative, positive debate,

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement.

I’m in the middle of a big debate,

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

SOAR changed the debate. Developers will still develop. But we said they should develop within these lines. And that is what has happened. When I drive through Ventura County, it is still awfully pretty.

I had 15 months there to debate it and back forth. At times, I was certain I was going to play and there were other times I was certain I wasn’t going to play, …...

I think that the soft or hard landing debate is misleading. Financial markets usually have hard landings regardless of how an economy lands.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes… You will be...

God help anybody who has to debate with Byrd.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and...

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks...

[Neither method] really quells the ethical debate, … It’s not clear it’s going to answer all the critics.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

The real debate around this witch hunt isn’t between us and the Vatican, it’s between the Vatican and the truth. When the church makes gay men a scapegoat for pedophiles, it ignores one problem and...

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.

There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if they’d gone further north. There’s a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so...

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

Love is two unicorns arguing over which is better: one animal with two horns, like a bull, or two animals with one horn apiece. I guess it doesn’t matter, because you should never debate when...

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

This has been the source of much public debate. But I ask everyone to respect the decision and offer Jens the trust he needs.