#debate

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

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four. ↗

— Chester Brown

#bit #consensus #debate #did #doing

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#debate #democratic #democratic society #hierarchy #inspiration

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#common #common sense #congress #day #debate

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue. ↗

— Pam Grier

#because #before #bible #conflict #dealing

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#doubtful #establish #formless #forward #i

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#control #debate #doing #federal #federal government

I'm a talker. I love a good debate. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#good #i #i love #love #talker

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#debate #distracted #easy #get #healthcare

Debates, I hate. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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