Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Bush

Thank heavens the debates are over, ... Someone said we should have more. I said, 'Good heavens, haven't we had enough of those?'

Gore Vidal

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

Alex Rodriguez

It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my mom and my wife having a debate for two hours about it.

The state's lack of regulations about well location and construction has been a focal point of this debate.

Christopher Dodd

The Senate's tradition is ruled to protect debate and guarantee that we can't be trampled upon.

John Doyle

That shifts our national focus away from a product abuser ... (to) a debate over whether or not someone who has two glasses of wine is drunk.

Marc Rotenberg

This has a big implication for the national debate.

They said, 'well, there's a possibility it'll swing back the other way'. I debated very hard on the whole thing, and just decided sooner or later, we're going to comply. I want to send a message, we're a family oriented place.

Nigel Farage

This is a one-sided debate, with no opposition voice allowed. It's an absolute.

This is not a new debate. Debates of voting methods have been going on for hundreds of years.

The whole debate about whether deflation is a risk has come full circle.

John Edward

This debate will come down to substance. It will come down to who can make the better case. Vice President Cheney will focus on making that case.

This debate I think is all about movies. What we're saying is that you can't provide dedicated line, virtual private network services for free.

Ted Kennedy

This debate is about making sure patients get the protections they deserve, ... It's about whether we are going to stop HMOs from making medical decisions.

There will be a vigorous debate on this. Nothing is settled.

Christine Jones

There's a lot of emotion around this debate because the immigrant system is broken.

Matthew Simmons

There isn't a middle argument. It's a finite resource. The only debate should be over when we peak.

Hugo Chavez

There isn't a debate, there is no dialogue. It seems to be a dialogue of the deaf.

Arlen Specter

There likely will be a national debate about whether the president really has the kind of power he's been using.

This is where the debate is, opt-in or opt-out. The industry wants self-regulation and others say opt-in should be for everything.

Bill O'Reilly

a real debate on the issues, not his silly name-calling.

Pat Buchanan

You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls,

Gerhard Schroder

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Christopher Hitchens

You can only have one aim per debate.

Chris Terrio

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.

George Tenet

and those debates were spelled out in the estimate.

Each day that this debate goes on, education is losing ground.

As successful as these students are at debate tournaments, it all comes from the work they do before they leave.

James Carville

This show will be another opportunity for me to engage in the back-and-forth debates on sports that, until now, Luke and I have limited to the stadium.

We are supposed to be responsible legislators representing all of our constituents. I hope that when we return to our communities, we frame this debate right.

Howard Baker

The United States has led in all these things, been in the vanguard of the development of the techniques. So it seems to me that the United States should not be thought of as dragging its foot on environmental quality, but rather questioning the appropriateness of a treaty that has never been submitted to the Senate for debate and consideration.

Things are still hot, but the trend is clear. The only debate now is how hard a landing there will be and what will it mean for the general economy.

Paul Jackson

The X Factor was a runaway success and united the nation in debates over the rights and wrongs of who got voted out each week. We are in discussions with celebrities right now but are keeping some of the elements of the show under wraps.