Top 38 Quotes About Political Debates

#1. We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

Tim Soutphommasane

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#2. I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives.

Sariah Wilson

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#3. I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Edward Snowden

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#4. I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

George W. Bush

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#5. The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.

Jerry Springer

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#6. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

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#7. I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Richard M. Nixon

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#8. We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

Adel Al-Jubeir

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#9. It was a good story, that of yours," said Beorn, "but I like it still better now I am sure it is true." The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#10. If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

Ben Carson

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#11. I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

Vince Cable

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#12. I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

Sam Brownback

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#13. You can't buy happiness

Kurt Cobain

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#14. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

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#15. Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.

Mark McKinnon

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#16. I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

Katie Finneran

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#17. One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

Jack McDevitt

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#18. If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Matt Martin

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#19. Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

Colin Tudge

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#20. Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.

Marvin Ammori

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#21. The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

Walter Cronkite

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#22. It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,
who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,
who can work upon others at his pleasure.

Denis Diderot

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#23. My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Dennis Kucinich

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#24. What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

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#25. The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

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#26. I'd like political candidates to present their prep plans for the zombie apocalypse, or for the robot revolution, or for when the Internet becomes self-aware, because at least then the debates would be more interesting.

Jenny Lawson

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#27. The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending ... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

John Gibbons

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#28. What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!

Dada Bhagwan

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#29. My happiness will not be ruined by people who can not find their own.

April WIlliams

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#30. If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century
France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This
was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in
progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so
much in such a world?.

Elizabeth Prettejohn

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#31. The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

Noah Webster

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#32. Smiles aren't always happy, but hers is. It's open, content, and confident.

Kim Holden

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#33. Always fight the horse, not the rider.

Bernard Cornwell

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#34. The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

Vanna Bonta

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#35. The discussions in our house at Hachsharah were so intense that nobody could convince the other side that their position was in error - just like all political debates before and since.

Jack Prins

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#36. Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.

Abhijit Naskar

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#37. While floor statements from today's [congressional] representatives are typically delivered to empty galleries and published into unread oblivion, legislative debates in the Reconstruction era were widely disseminated and closely observed.

Andrew Buttaro

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#38. I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.

Justin Trudeau

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