#debate

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#changed #debate #everything #first #first of all

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette. ↗

— Mos Def

#basic #better #buzz #code #conduct

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#debate #echo #like #more #often

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

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

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword. ↗

— Charles D. Ellison

#discourse #double-edged #double-edged sword #full #open

When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#debate #did #game #give #good

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#defense #department #holding #hostage #idea