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By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
Don't tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don't debate it.
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.
Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.
The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
I don't think people are monsters if they put ketchup on hot dogs, but I'm good without it. It's a debate that I don't get too hot-and-heavy with.
Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.
I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
I'm all for a passionate debate, and sometimes things can be heated, which is fine, up to a point. As long as we remember that we are human beings.
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.
If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.
There are plenty of dates that are dead nights that you could do. There are plenty evenings that are dead nights that you could have the debates in.
Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.
There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.
The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.
The separation of audience into tribes preferring to reinforce their own views with media of similar ideological stripe makes true debate impossible.
The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.
What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
Conservatives have the advantage of knowing how to debate each other on issues, principles, and priorities, and that is where they should engage Trump.
Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)
There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.
The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.