“There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.” NeedsRealitySciencePoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipJusticePolicyHappeningsEthicsUnityCongressDenyDebate Author:Bill Nye
“The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.” PeopleTwoShowsAmericaSidesInterestingHappeningsProgramOppositesDebateEditingDelayMost InterestingInteresting ThingsRatingSetupsAghast Author:Morgan Neville
“We have a violence problem in America. And no one is having a debate about the violence problem. And I think this is a missed opportunity to have an honest and open conversation in this country about why these horrifying things are happening, not simply what they're using to carry this out, but why are people doing this to begin with?” PeopleThinkingCountryProblemAmericaOpportunityViolenceHonestConversationHappeningsDebateMissed Opportunity Author:Marco Rubio
“What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.” WorldWantHappeningsDebateAround The WorldDiscussionProvoking Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.” IfsPoliticalMotherArtistLevelsTvsHappeningsProgramWingsDebateMainstreamFrighteningRight WingBiasedPolitical Debates Author:Thom Yorke
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to play out in the decades ahead, because this is a large experiment that we haven't done before, and no one knows precisely how one can ever precisely predict what effects this heat will have. But all the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.” KnowsYearsRealDonePlayShowsLastsCoursesEffectsHavensHappeningsDecadesDebateExperimentsHeatRapids Author:Bill McKibben
“I don't think [Donald] Trump was playing rope-a-dope. He probably said, "Look, I've done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries? I know what's happening."” ThinkingKnowsLooksSaidDoneTrumpHappeningsDebatePrimariesRopeDope Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through having an outward-looking attitude to what's happening to women in other countries, and by being affected by a broader debate.” CountryCan DoAttitudeHappeningsDebateAffectedLinksOther CountriesIrish Women Author:Mary Robinson