They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
Bernard Hopkins
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We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Russ Feingold
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It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.
Theresa May
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Let's talk about policing and public safety. Let's debate what works and what does not. We must abandon practices that do not work, and do more of the things that actually do work to save lives.
Martin O'Malley
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In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.
Paul Singer
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I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.
Michael Moore
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
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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
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The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
Jasper Carrott
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Years ago, I was watching a debate on Fox News, when I thought, 'These guys are basically like pranksters, they bring the people in and wind them up.' I was like, 'That's what I do!'
Kayvan Novak
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There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
Joschka Fischer
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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
Al Franken
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
Diego Maradona
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
Yitzhak Rabin
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There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.
Chester Brown
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
Ted Cruz
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In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Chris Terrio
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
Rand Paul
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Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.
Bob Beckel
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
Olympia Snowe
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Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.
Annalee Newitz
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Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.
Ma Yansong
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I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.
William Odom
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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