Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Johns

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

We will definitely debate the governor, and whether we come up with a number of 10 at the moment or something else, we're definitely looking forward to debating him.

This reopens the debate about the validity of the findings of a protective effect for moderate drinkers, and it suggests that studies in the future be better designed to take this potential error into account.

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.

It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.

Dennis Hastert

Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree,

Lincoln may be a revered icon, but he's also an historical figure about whom passions often run high. Certainly, we would like to make a vigorous and healthy debate about Lincoln and his legacy an important part of our bicentennial activities.

It defeats the purpose of debates when the incumbent is unwilling to defend his record.

I thought it was a good, informative, positive debate,

I thought last year there would have been a debate over this after the four hurricanes we experienced.

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

It is not a policy debate that's being shoved in our faces right now.

I think that the soft or hard landing debate is misleading. Financial markets usually have hard landings regardless of how an economy lands.

I think that transparency is key to this debate.

Charlie Sheen

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

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.

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.

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're delighted they're engaging in a debate that they say doesn't exist.

Roger Goodell

When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.

Most of the debate is framed in terms of us and them. You have some folks on the left saying how they help us. And then you have people on the right saying how they pose a threat to us.

Microsoft is in there, stirring up debate. The whole thing is more of a mess than it has to be.

Barack Obama

When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.

We have our eyes on the prize, focusing on the election in November and the real differences in this race. That's the debate we've been focusing on.

We haven't seen this kind of debate in years. This is an election year, and this is a high-profile issue.

Karl Rove

We intend to pick it up. I welcome this debate because it is one that we can win.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Ann Richards

I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,

We have a whole new dynamic brewing here -- a new social movement of sorts in the debate over immigration.