#debate

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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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

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But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. ↗

— Donald Evans

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That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

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You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.' ↗

— Gary Busey

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