All Quotes

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
‐‐ Helen Suzman

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
‐‐ Ted Kulongoski

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
‐‐ Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is so much better than denial.
‐‐ Julie Walters

Debates are boring.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
‐‐ Eugene Fama

Debates, I hate.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.
‐‐ Pope Shenouda III

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
‐‐ Edmond de Goncourt

Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.
‐‐ Julie Brown

Debra Winger blows me away, always.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag - on economic growth and job creation.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.
‐‐ Paul Krugman

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
‐‐ Susan George

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Decadence is wonderful.
‐‐ Jack L. Chalker

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
‐‐ Lisa Edelstein

Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson worked out his own Southern Strategy. Even as he was moving the nation to war, Wilson re-segregated Washington and purged African-Americans from federal jobs.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
‐‐ Patti Davis

Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
‐‐ Donald Trump

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
‐‐ Jeff Merkley

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
‐‐ Anne Roiphe

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
‐‐ George Herbert

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Deception is everywhere.
‐‐ James Sanborn

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
‐‐ Bill Cosby