Top Debate Quotes
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
Bill Delahunt
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Hillary Clinton
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Russ Feingold
One can always debate questions back and forth.
Robert Bourassa
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
Bill Delahunt 
64% of people like this quote
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Joseph E. Stiglitz 
63% of people like this quote
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Hillary Clinton 
62% of people like this quote
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Russ Feingold 
62% of people like this quote
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
James Inhofe 
61% of people like this quote
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 
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If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.
Raul Grijalva 
60% of people like this quote
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