(1143 quotes found)
“Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.”
Christopher Lasch
“The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”
“The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.”
David Letterman
“Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.”
Hannah Arendt
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
Joseph Joubert
“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
Herbert Clark Hoover
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell
“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
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“John Kerry could debate himself for ninty minutes.”
George W. Bush
