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As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?

Me Mission Debate Argument Moral

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Passion Decision Debate Reason Guide

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Information Debate Torture May Been

Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

Richard Corliss

God Christian Back Debate Cards

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

Government Democracy Back Debate

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Fear Science Environmental Debate

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Marsha Blackburn

Chance Priorities Debate Congress

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Racing Debate Go Way See Suit

I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Time Team Debate Election Florida

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

Jennifer Granholm

Woman Tough Debate Election Vice

I enjoy the debate... I haven't met a single person in Congress yet that I dislike. It's not about moderating your views: it's about being able to talk about them and defending them in a way that's uplifting to people.

People Enjoy Debate Person Way Talk

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Anatole Broyard

Life Self Feel Debate I Can Human

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

Language Debate Done Discourse

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

Believe Debate Rhetoric Side Either

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Science Best Debate Science Fiction

When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

Jeff Greenfield

Mother Son Dinner You Debate Follow

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts Ice Debate Understand Heat

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

Love People Interesting Media Debate

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

Angry Process Media Trying Debate

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

Tristram Stuart

Children Food People Think Debate

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

Time People End You Debate Will

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

End Debate Tax Against Period

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader People Judge Debate Aim See

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Independence Comedy Debate More Room

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