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.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble organize and debate openly.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

I fear that in the end the famous debate among materialists idealists and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

You do now have one in three people as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three four years ago.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed and debated intensely.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions whether they are taking place in our communities at our dinner tables or in our places of worship.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men who until recently couldn't get pregnant.

Moreover environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear rather than science.

Listen if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city I got three words: bring it on.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat it won't jump out. Instead it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Maybe one day the world will change that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals but the question doesn't matter right now.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored so if you get debate that's great.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.