Political Debates Quotes

I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

What is the purpose of the government? When you examine most political debates, you usually find that question at the bedrock. What makes a government good? What makes one effective? What is government supposed to do, and what shouldn’t it do? The reason we disagree so much about politics is often because we hold different theories about what the purpose of government is.

When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.

We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

During the debate, Bush was asked by a lady to name three mistakes he's made. And Bush responded, this debate, the last debate and the next debate.

We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.

For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump's behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.