Serious Debate Quotes

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

Climate change is real and needs honest debate about measures to restrain and remediate it. But that would be serious. So instead we are told the planet is going to burn up and our only option is to reverse millennia of human progress. And our leaders spent the last few years trying to win the approval of an angry Swedish teenager.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

He's a jackass at a time when we need to have a serious debate.... Every time I turn around somebody asks we what I think about Donald Trump and the latest person he has trashed.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

A sad fact about the politics of Washington is that some of the most important issues facing the United States and the world are rarely debated in a serious manner. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of foreign policy.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.