#debate

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#could #debate #into #ought #something

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

He who frames the question wins the debate. ↗

— Randall Terry

#frames #question #who #wins

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. ↗

— James Inhofe

#fear #global #global warming #much #over

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#create #debate #feature #first #impression

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#debate #politicians #politics #regime-attacks #change

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#debate #dialogue #funny #humor #judgement

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. ↗

— Henry Miller

#debate-fodder #intelligence #reading #wisdom #intelligence

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#debate #education #ignorance #informed #knowledge

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. ↗