(1143 quotes found)
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”
Mike Royko
“Do not debate! is one of my inventions.”
Deng Xiaoping
“Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number”
Stephen Jay Gould
“The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty high - and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death”
Donald Soper
“I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching”
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“Debate is the death of conversation.”
Kitty O'Neill Collins
“After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.”
Edward R. Murrow
“Intellectuals can debate. Idiots just argue.”
Dani Reynolds
“[As a result, Nagin himself has become part of the debate over how best to rebuild the devastated Big Easy. Critics suggest the qualities that endeared him to Orleanians before Katrina, among them his political inexperience and his shoot-from-the-hip approach, make him the wrong man for the massive, labyrinthine job ahead. But his supporters, especially members of the business community, say the reconstruction project offers Nagin, 49, a chance to dramatically change not only New Orleans' skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture.] I'm still high on him, ... He's the right leader to bring the city back?especially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power.”
Mark Lewis
“Pretty soon, there will not be any debate in this city about overcrowded prisons. AIDS will take care of that.”
Mario Merola
