Quotes About Healthy Debate

#1. That's why we're just friends," Armin said, so softly I barely heard. "She can't fall in love, and I can't fall out.

Leah Raeder

#2. Naked Mr. America, burning frantic with self bone love, screams out: My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight!

William S. Burroughs

#3. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

T. Colin Campbell

#4. Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do.

Thomas Gilovich

#5. One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

Barack Obama

#6. People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Will Rogers

#7. Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Donald L. Carcieri

#8. Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Mark Udall

#10. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

#11. Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.

Tim Walberg

#12. Choice is a signature of our species.

Diane Ackerman

#13. I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

Laura Marling

#14. Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

Herbert Stein

#15. Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

Rachel Notley

#16. Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Chris Isaak

#17. Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

Douglas Wilder

#18. I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Maajid Nawaz

#19. What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

Leonor Varela

#20. I see less and less ... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up ... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Claude Monet

#21. That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikesme as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.

Elaine Dundy

#22. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.

John Wooden

#23. Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

Ted Kulongoski