As our national roof continues to leak, we debate what kind of steak we will eat.
We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy.
So as we debate our American capitalism versus social democracy or other economic forms, let us acknowledge the issues and address them.
"Improvements in our civil discourse and how we debate issues will certainly play a role in this year's State of the Union, " Gibbs said.
We debate that, at length, in the film - and the parallels between the events of the 1920s and 1930s and the eurozone crisis today.
We debate everything, in fact my calculations show we have spent slightly over 2200 hours debating, arguing, or discussing hundreds of issues you could think of in that time.
And as a consequence of this debt ceiling debacle being behind us now, what we're going to have is 16 months in which we debate this vision for America.
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The millennial generation is coming of age and we debate whether the "everybody gets a trophy" ethos (plus the uphill economic climb) has left them well prepared for life after college.
We debate leadership as if it is a function like conducting or driving when in fact it is a dispersed cerebral act that needs to find adherents, co-advocates, friends around the web.
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As we debate how to step back from the fiscal cliff, it is imperative that we use this moment to address the long-term structural causes of the imbalance between revenues and spending.
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And, again, we can debate, and we should debate, and the President will debate, no doubt, during this campaign, whether or not now is the right time to give tax cuts to the richest and wealthiest Americans.
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Better that we debate these things in public than we acquiesce to extra judicial measures, which I'm afraid is what we've seen some of them -what we're likely to get unless we do have a public discussion about this.
But while we debate, nature adjudicates.
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It is especially appropriate that tonight, during the 10th Annual Silicon Valley comes to Oxford gathering, a program that has helped to make Oxford one of the entrepreneurial centers of Europe, that we debate a topic that is, ultimately, about the nature of entrepreneurship itself.
And so one of the things that we're going to be talking about over the next several months as we debate the budget and government spending and the proper role of government, is just -- I want everybody to remember, I'm going to say this repeatedly -- this is not an argument about taking from A to give to B.
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And that was the debate we had and that's the debate we're continuing to have.
One of the reasons that we're involved in a lengthy debate on health care is we've had a lengthy debate about how we're going to pay for an initiative of the President.
And at least prior to that, even as we acknowledge that we will debate some of these issues beyond the election, we can take action immediately to pass the tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people that would go a significant distance down the road towards addressing the fiscal cliff.
And then we continue to debate how we move forward to reduce our deficit in a balanced way, how we move forward to get our health care spending under control and reform our tax system.
If we are going to have a debate in this town about extending tax cuts for people that make a billion dollars a year, how do we not have a debate and how do we not come to some conclusion for unemployment benefits for people that have lost their job?
We can debate whether women get a fair shake at opportunities and I would argue that we do.
It is important for us to make sure that we complete the evaluation process, we finish the debate, and we go ahead and finish this up before the end of the year.
In better times, we will debate Cramer on whether the rich should pay more taxes.
We can debate the value of this new breed of CRM application for a long time.
And that has strengthened our cooperation, although we do debate matters in a controversial manner.
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We often debate whether footballers should be role models - and the Iraqi team certainly embrace that responsibility.
We can debate the finer points of whether an iPad or an Android tablet can truly replace a desktop computer.
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