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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

Harold H. Greene

Thought

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Clifford Geertz

Argument

Debate

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Thomas Friedman

Capitalism

Debate

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Joschka Fischer

Debate

Reform

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Geraldine Ferraro

Debate

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

Geraldine Ferraro

Goal

Debate

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Debate

Democracy

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.