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We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions. -- Carole Bouquet
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate. -- Jose Mujica
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. -- Dennis Kucinich
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. -- Joseph Stiglitz
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. -- Dennis Prager
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues. -- Michael Bennet
Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent. -- Mark Udall
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. -- Dambisa Moyo
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win? -- Randall Terry
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. -- Ann Coulter
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.' -- Jeff Greenfield
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. -- Hillary Clinton
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes. -- Bob Barr
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. -- John McCain
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
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics. -- Johann Lamont
Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political. -- Andrew Cuomo

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