#debate

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. ↗

— Fred Frith

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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. ↗

— Garet Garrett

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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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