#debates

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#basically #been #convention #conventions #debates

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. ↗

— E. B. White

#debates #disarmament #imperative #knights #make

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#changes #children #choices #confusion #continuing

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. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#debates #deeply #embedded #expose #need

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#civic #commission #debates #draft #i

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#going #real

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#both #both sides #correct #debates #deny

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#century #certainly #creator #debates #emphasis

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#affordable #affordable health care #care #country #create