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source: "Pål Brekke: Internationally renowned climate sceptic and solar expert". Interview with Siw Ellen Jacobsen, www.forskningsradet.no. February 29, 2008.

topic: Issues, Global Warming, Debate

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

- Pat Toomey

source: "Sestak, Toomey on opposite sides of energy debate". www.post-gazette.com. June 14, 2010.

topic: Community, Global Warming, Debate

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

- Paul Begala

topic: Winning, Defining, Debate

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

- Peter Hitchens

topic: Thinking, Taught, Debate

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

- Peter Jennings

topic: Debate, Moments, Particular

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

- Phil Donahue

topic: Presidential, Democracy, Debate, Presidential Debate

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

- Philip Greenspun

source: Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.

topic: Focus, Debate, University

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

- Phillip E. Johnson

source: Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

topic: Fundamentals, Assumption, Debate, Labeling

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Beer, House, Debate, Empty Houses, Drunkards

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

- Rand Paul

topic: Constitution, Debate, Terrorism

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

topic: Topics, Debate, Hypothesis

He who frames the question wins the debate.

- Randall Terry

topic: Winning, Debate

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

topic: Democracy, Debate, Method

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

- Rich Lowry

topic: Years, Levels, Debate

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

- Richard D. Wolff

topic: Cutting, Debate, Rich, Jobless

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Looks, Might, Debate

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

- Richard Dreyfuss

topic: Mistake, Passionate, Debate

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

- Richard Holloway

source: Richard Holloway (2008). “Between The Monster And The Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition”, p.203, Canongate Books

topic: Use, Moral, Debate

Ah, yes, my social life â€” a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

- Robert Breault

topic: Encounters, Haste, Debate

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

- Robert Higgs

topic: Anarchy, Debate, Anarchist, Burden Of Proof

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

- Russell T Davies

source: "Amy Winehouse would be a great Doctor" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.

topic: Oxygen, People, Debate

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Anger, Gains, Debate

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

- Sidney Howard

topic: Evil, People, Debate

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

- Stephanie Cutter

topic: Mean, Minimum Wage, Debate

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

source: "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2005.

topic: Body, Election, Debate, Irregularity

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

source: "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

topic: Integrity, People, Debate

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

- Studs Terkel

topic: Missing, Argument, Debate

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

- Ted Kulongoski

topic: Starting Over, Healthy, Debate

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

- Theodore Parker

topic: Weapons, Offensive, Debate

A fool and his money be soon at debate

- Thomas Tusser

source: Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.23, Lackington, Allen

topic: Fool, Debate

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

- Tom Cole

source: "Rep. Cole: I'm not for raising tax rates on anyone". "Your World Cavuto" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2012.

topic: Debate, Ends, Periods, Tax Increases

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

- Tony Abbott

source: "Abbott goes to school in Sydney". Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2010.

topic: Debate

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

- Torquato Tasso

topic: Men, Fool, Debate

There's always merit to having a debate.

- Ward Churchill

topic: Merit, Debate

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

- William J. Clinton

topic: America, Mind, Debate

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

- William Penn

topic: Victory, Unjust, Debate

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

- William Poundstone

source: William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

topic: Use, Debate, Shannon, Von Neumann

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

- Yitzhak Rabin

topic: Fighting, Debate, Midst

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

- Allen C. Guelzo

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Regret, Risk, Debate

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing...

- Barry Ritholtz

source: "The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations" by Barry Ritholtz, ritholtz.com. September 27, 2010.

topic: Intellectual, Losing, Debate, Keynes, Goldman Sachs

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

- Benjamin E. Sasse

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Differences, Too Much, Debate

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

- Clive Ponting

source: Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

topic: House, Debate, Bans, House Of Commons

Donald Trump said prior to the debate that he wants to be very civil. He said that instead of referring to all Hispanics as criminals, he'll call them criminal Americans.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Criminals, Want, Debate

A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.

- Hasan Minhaj

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: People, Political, Debate

So, we're well aware of the questions that our audience is inevitably going to ask. We're well aware of how carefully they watch the show and hold us to continuity. We're certainly aware of the debates that are going to occur.

- Jeff Pinkner

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Watches, Debate, Shows

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

- Jess Row

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Identity, Debate, Complicated

I want to say that even - and Bernie said this many, many times - in several of the actual public debates, she said on her worst day, Hillary Clinton's a thousand times better than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, in my view, is a threat to the nation.

- Jonathan Tasini

source: "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

topic: Views, Want, Debate, Worst Day

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Looks, Debate, Stage

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

topic: Athlete, Anthem, Debate, Professional Athlete

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Debate, Failing, Proposal

It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Financial, Debate, Stealing

I really don't have time at the moment for coalition debates. The voters will decide what the next parliament will look like. Those who wish to form a coalition with The Social Democrats can take a look at our platform and then they are more than welcome to talk to us.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Wish, Welcome, Debate

I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.

- Naheed Nenshi

topic: Important, Debate

I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.

- Naheed Nenshi

topic: Immigration, Debate, Economy

There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Car, Kind, Debate, Transmission

Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when they tried to say: "You Indians get everything free." People have stereotypes of Indigenous people. I learned to challenge in a respectful way.

- Perry Bellegarde

topic: People, Challenges, Debate, Indigenous People

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

- Rachel Notley

topic: Political, Healthy, Debate, Political Debates

There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from public debate and public decision making. Whether the public has come to regard evidence as optional.

- Rush D. Holt, Jr.

topic: Appreciation, Decision, Debate, Optional

I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.

- Scott Pruitt

topic: Believe, I Believe, Debate

I believe the ability to measure with precision the degree of human activities' impact on the climate, is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.

- Scott Pruitt

topic: Believe, I Believe, Debate

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: New York, Answers, Debate, Columbia University

Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.

- Tanya Plibersek

topic: Teenager, Facts, Debate

Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after he was spurned by the United States. What is not disputed is that he was always an autocrat moving ruthlessly against anyone who dared oppose him.

- Tom Gjelten

topic: Moving, United States, Debate

The American Dream and the American Way are terms which refer to the dreams and ideals of generations of Americans. There is much debate over exactly which dreams and ideals these are, and the term is often used ironically.

- Unknown

topic: Dream, American Dream, Debate

The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.

- Michael Gerson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Presidential, Problem, Debate

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

- Michael Howard

topic: Sex, Past, Debate

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

- Michael K. Powell

topic: People, Scared, Debate

Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.

- Michel Martin

source: "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

topic: Trying, Debate, Trump, One On One, Cruz

Why was Donald Trump's decision not to participate in the Fox debate such a big deal?

- Michel Martin

source: "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

topic: Decision, Foxes, Debate

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

- P. W. Singer

source: Source: www.bloomberg.com

topic: Navy, Culture, Debate

Trump is loose and obvious with his facial expressions. You could watch Donald Trump in a debate and not hear any of the words and you'll still get a sense for when he's pleased, when he's angry and when he's not.

- Daniel Negreanu

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Debate, Obvious, Facial Expression

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

- Doug Pagitt

source: Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Belief, Debate, Guides

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

- Francis Joseph Sheed

topic: Atheist, Debate

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

- Gerhard Schroder

topic: Debate, Politician, Monetary Policy, Counterproductive

You can't have a motion without a debate.

- Hugh Dalton

topic: Debate

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

- Tom McClintock