Debating Quotes
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That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.
timothy leary— Discussing CNN’s Crossfire as quoted in Rolling Stone (14 December 1989)
Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.
nehemiah adams— P. 268. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.
lewis m. branscomb— Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, "Science and Democracy" The Scientist, October 1, 2012.
You will know that in our most recent skirmishes, I won some debating points and he won another general election.
joe clark— Clark salutes Jean Chrétien in the House of Commons, November 6, 2003. Clark was deemed by most polls to have "won" the Federal leaders' English-language debate in 2000. ([3])
Cockburn’s personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing – debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin’s gulags, claiming that ‘the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class’, when aspects of his father’s convictions can be glimpsed.
alexander cockburn— William Keach, "IN PERSPECTIVE: Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens, International Socialism, March 1998.
We need our highest judicial body to stop this childish bickering and get back to debating the kinds of weighty constitutional issues that have absorbed the court in recent years, such as whether a city can legally force an exotic dancer to cover her entire nipple, or just the part that pokes out.
dave barry— Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
thomas carlyle— Pt. I, Bk. VI, ch. 3.
“We are not a debating club,” Franklin said. “Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.”
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 29 (p. 270)
The thing that strikes me more and more and it strikes a lot of other people, too is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time.:; I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious.:; They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects.:; I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point.
george orwell— "As I Please," Tribune (8 December 1944)[26]
Many companies are not driving significant business value from the digitized platforms they build as part of their enterprise architecture initiatives. Our 2011 survey of 146 senior IT leaders found that the companies that benefit from their platforms' efforts are consistently relying on four architecture-related practices that encourage organizational learning about the value of enterprise architecture: 1) making IT costs transparent, 2) debating architectural exceptions, 3) performing post-implementation reviews, and 4) making IT investments with enterprise architecture in mind.
— Jeanne W. Ross & Anne Quaadgras (2012) "Enterprise Architecture Is Not Just for Architects," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XII, No. 9, September 2012
I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers—it may not take long.
william hague— 18 July 2001, House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions
debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
— Scott D. Weitzenhoffer, comment regarding Eugenie Scott's book Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (16 March 2005)
