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Social studies was my favorite subject. I remember I portrayed Walter Mondale in a mock debate in my sophomore social studies class.
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.
Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.
There can be a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, but why should we shelter someone who has come to India illegally from outside?
The Republican Party has a reputation for being the party of big business, but you wouldn't think that if you saw the Obamacare debate.
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.
I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.
Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
He don't debate he concentrate on survivin' He don't like to drive if he's been drinkin' But he'll drink while he's drivin' He's the dude
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
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.
Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.
I like Macron a lot and I very much welcome him - particularly the fact that he made Europe one of the main topics of the election debate.
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.
Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.