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But I do think its necessary to have debates.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

I think it's one of the challenges of modern politics, which is, how do you communicate who the candidate is, and what they really believe, in the short time period you have? And for me, the best opportunity was the debates, and I think I was in real trouble before the debates, and I think the debates helped me a lot.

One can always debate questions back and forth.