#debate

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

#consensus #convictions #debated #differences #durable

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

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#build #country #debate #go #grown

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. ↗

— John Negroponte

#america #central #communists #debates #denying

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#debate #enter #heat #how #ice

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#accurately #cannot #conflicts #debates #frame

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ↗

— Colin Powell

#always #argument #cut #debate #doubt

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#candid #debate #even #know #majority

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#fighting #midst #place #public #public debate

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#bring #debate #get #industrial #informed