To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
Eric Metaxas
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If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
John Ridley
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
Elliott Abrams
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I'm a passionate entrepreneur. I'm like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I'll go - I'll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I'm so passionate about it.
Travis Kalanick
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There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.
Craig Venter
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There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.
Rob Simmons
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This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
Byron Dorgan
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If Dick Shelby were to participate in a debate, it would answer a lot of questions about his health and cognitive ability.
Ron Crumpton
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Bernie Sanders
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.
Rush Limbaugh
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Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.
Theresa May
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As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
Marvin Ammori
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The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
Paul Ryan
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You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
Michael Moore
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Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.
Lee Smolin
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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
Jose Mujica
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I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
Katherine Heigl
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One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
Jon Meacham
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
Adam Savage
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Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.
Diego Luna
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There's always merit to having a debate.
Ward Churchill
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch
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My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.
Uday Kotak
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
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