Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to sound like a snake-oil salesman here. There will be debate. It's not really a time-consuming undertaking. It's a matter of defining your neighborhood elements.

Jeff Burton

Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.

The outlook improved when the debate in the Senate was moved up.

Whether it is guest workers or other forms of broadening immigration for our labor-force needs, ... that debate is starting to unfold and it is a debate that we need to have.

We are quite open, but we don't want a debate style, it is too confrontational in this kind of situation. We are willing to sit down and talk with all parties concerned, but still think it should be a closed-door session.

William Daley

There are three debates and I think the American people are going to make a decision after they see all three formats,

Scott Horowitz

We know that there's hydrogen there?but there is a huge debate as to what that hydrogen is locked up with. If there is water there, that's a big deal?a huge impact on how we do exploration.

Paul Bloom

Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.

Mustafa Akyol

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

The debate will no doubt be heated and at times contentious. The debate in the Senate is only one part of the lengthy process.

The debate was pretty lively with Lawrence Taylor.

The debate that's going on in Washington over immigration reform is, I believe, a historic period for the country.

Pat Buchanan

The debate system is set up to keep me out of the debates,

Elliott Abrams

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

The debate on Long Island has always been emotional.

The debate isn't digital versus plastic. It isn't old versus new,

The debate is: How do we provide safe and efficient transportation without compromising Vermont's rural landscape ?

Jonathan Adler

The debate in Washington will focus on ideology, ... will be no less important.

The debate here needs to be about moving away from oil as a means of looking at energy security. There are a lot of new technologies that can be looked at for this.

The debate has to happen at the state level before it can be resolved at the federal level.

Three months ago, the debate was whether the economy was still declining or going sideways. Now the debate is whether the economy is going sideways or whether it is improving.

Julia Robinson

We aren't pushing a particular agenda, but we're opening a dialogue on how we need to be doing something different. We think it is positive to talk about ideas. We selected the university to do that because the university is intended to be a place where you can debate ideas without being polarized.

Gloria Arroyo

We're waiting for emotions to subside, and we hope that the opposition will go back to their seats so we can proceed with the debate and hopefully with the voting,

We will have a very tough debate in the second half of 2002,

We are entitled to a great national debate, ... and we shouldn't shy away from it.

Henry Hyde

There are many voices telling us to halt this debate, that the people are weary of it all, ... There are other voices suggesting we have a duty to debate the many questions raised by the circumstances in which we find ourselves, questions of high consequence for constitutional government.... What is the significance of a false statement under oath? Is it essentially different from a garden variety lie? A mental reservation? A fib? An evasion? A little white lie? Hyperbole?

Michael K. Powell

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

Andy Kindler

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

Dennis Hastert

We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.

The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.

Hayao Miyazaki

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

Gary Johnson

I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

We shouldn't wait too long to revive the debate on the European future.