#debate

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#brussels #budget #contributions #debate #deficit

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#debate #doing #federal #federal government #government

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#debate #debating #question #settle #settling

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#apparent #aspect #debate #discuss #divide

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#debated #eat #fast #fast food #food

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate. ↗

— Frank Keating

#debate #enough #fix #larger #much

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District. ↗

— Bob Ney

#after #bill #congress #congressional #congressional district

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#anyone #argument #debate #expect #i