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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".
Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.
I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.
We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.
All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.
I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton's debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect.
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
You know, times change. That's why there are so many debates about who people think the greatest players of all time are.
Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.
When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all.
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.
I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.
When the presidential debates are on, I'll watch that like it's the Super Bowl. I actually thoroughly enjoy that. I always have.
There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.
It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.
If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.
Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
I don't think [Donald] Trump was playing rope-a-dope. He probably said, "Look, I've done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries? I know what's happening."
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.
If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.
The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps
