#debates

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work. ↗

— James P. Moran

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

— Dennis Kucinich

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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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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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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

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If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#going #real

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. ↗

— Rich Lowry

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗