Top 186 Debating Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the Nineties.
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.
NDAA should be about providing critical funding for our troops, not debating immigration policy.
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.
This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work.
I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.
I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.
I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.
In college, I was in the debating society - this total nerd.
This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.
I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.
We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.
It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.
There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.
Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
I'm not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.
I like debating policy.
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
There is no debating that the coronavirus pandemic hit our economy very, very hard.
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.
Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.
She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.
A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!
I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.
