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I like debating policy.
I'm not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.
Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.
Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work.
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.
Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.
NDAA should be about providing critical funding for our troops, not debating immigration policy.
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.
In the hundreds of hours spent in Parliament debating Brexit, I constantly think of how we could have spent our time better.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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.
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.
I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.
Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.
We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.
Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It's sort of a very international, very niche hobby.
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
Sonya Deville was originally supposed to be NJ Deville to help me keep my MMA nickname of 'The Jersey Devil' after debating back and forth we agreed on Sonya Deville.
I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected him for that, and I loved his debating style.
People looked up to us for our values and leadership. But today, they laugh as we are busy debating whether one of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal, was actually built by Indians.
We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.
When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections.
I've been debating with people over what an album actually means in 2018. Certain artists who have paid their dues and proven themselves have almost the privilege to put out a full length album.
I mean, obviously when you've a lot of time on your hands, you get together and you're always always debating that team vs. that team, that player vs. that player, all these hypothetical matchups.
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.
The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.
Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.