#debates

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

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Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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Debates, I hate. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. ↗

— Juan Cole

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But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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