Televised Debate Quotes

#1. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

#2. Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

Peter Morgan

#3. That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

Lyle Lovett

#4. It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

Lesslie Newbigin

#5. John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

Susan Estrich

#6. But it ain't the Broncos that'll kill you
It's just that damned old cowboy pride.

Michael Martin Murphy-"Cowboy Pride

Michael Martin Murphy

#7. Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

Ted Cruz

#8. I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel."
"Why not? Because I'm a woman?"
"No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

Tessa Dare

#9. I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

Peter Camejo

#10. What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#11. Serving in obscurity can do more to shape a future leader than a dozen years of combing evangelicalism for the perfect position.

Dave Harvey

#12. With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

John Ridley

#13. Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.

Joey Comeau

#14. Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

Douglas Rushkoff