Social Debate Quotes

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

I think the Right has made a serious mistake in adopting a moral-values strategy, because they’re winning in the short run. But in the long run, they’re going to lose this debate because they won’t be able to restrict it to two issues (abortion & gay marriage). Once you open that door to a values conversation, it’s going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there is an institution in your society that is above criticism, you’re giving it a free pass.

Whenever the abortion issue is raised, people are asked to compromise their principles in order to reach some sort of political accommodation.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

Racism in our society is a motion for cloture. Accuse anybody of racism and it almost stops the debate.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

I'm happy Lootera has sparked off a discussion.

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.

Same-sex marriage - no question - is an issue.

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We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.