Informed Debate Quotes

#1. We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

#2. I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

James G. Stavridis

#3. You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

Rachel Sklar

#4. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

#5. I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a
wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all of these different
kinds of foods ... and they all taste good, and when you get used to it, you
feel better!

Bruce Ames

#6. The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

Paul Davies

#7. Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

Jaggi Vasudev

#8. She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live.

Colm Toibin

#9. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. Sometimes you just need to have faith in God and believe that everything will turn out for the best".

Kim Carlos

#12. History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.

James W. Loewen

#13. I hope we don't get in no more Hoovervilles,' said

John Steinbeck

#14. Twelve-gauge shotguns are unpleasant for shooters weighing less than 160 pounds.

John S. Farnam

#15. Important is where you going to, not where you coming from

Rishi

#16. The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#17. Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

Frederick Buechner

#18. The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

Pope Francis

#19. We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter

#20. It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

Patrick Swayze

#21. Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Carl Sagan

#22. Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

Steven Tyler