Debate

When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.

- Barack Obama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

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There has been a philosophical debate that has been deliberately confused by critics. Their arguments are misguided and erroneous. We're taking these steps at this time because of the confusion that has been created in the marketplace.

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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

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Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

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I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.

- Ralph Nader Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The debate is How do we provide safe and efficient transportation without compromising Vermont's rural landscape

- Robert McCullough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Fed's minutes do not change the near-term outlook for policy despite the strong market reaction. Clearly there is some debate as to how much further tightening will be necessary, as the minutes say the number of hikes will likely 'not be large,' but 'large' is undefined. This does not read like a Fed where everyone is looking for a reason to stop.

- Ian Shepherdson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

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In situations such as this, the level of public debate is often not as high as one would like it to be. But I think we can have a public process that represents everyone's values.

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This report does not add to the case that there's a visible slowing in the economy. It keeps (the Fed) directly on path to tighten in May and leaves the debate on whether they will tighten in June certain to be a very lively one.

- Dana Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The tragedy of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 brought into sharp focus the debate about the life saving qualities of healthy reefs and mangroves.

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This was a debate that powerful special interests had been able to prevent, until now, ... We have garnered more support than anyone thought possible just a few months ago when we began this effort.

- Patrick Leahy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. So, there's a lot of debate about the use of that money. And, of course, there's some debate about leasing the toll road itself.

- Gary Abell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't debate with liars.

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Debate the nominee for five hours, debate the nominee for 50 hours. Vote for the nominee, vote against the nominee, ... But in the end, vote. Senators, colleagues, let's do our duty and vote.

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He talked about putting out a framework for the next 20 years. Now the whole debate will be, what reforms can there be so that the money gets used efficiently, and then how do we pay for it

- Kevin McCarthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We aren't pushing a particular agenda, but we're opening a dialogue on how we need to be doing something different. We think it is positive to talk about ideas. We selected the university to do that because the university is intended to be a place where you can debate ideas without being polarized.

- Julia Robinson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

- John Stuart Mill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't think anyone should claim God as being on their side in this debate.

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The rate debate seems more alive than ever, so all the U. K. data will be important.

- Neil Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

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It's a mistake to allow the political headline of the moment to obscure the overall progress being made on a lot of important fronts. We're about to have a big debate about taxing and spending. Those are debates where we historically have done well and will this time.

- Ken Mehlman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Traditionally religious people in the United States tend to have a traditional view of marriage and that comes very directly from the Old and New Testament. You simply can't have a debate about these topics without religion becoming part of the debate.

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