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I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

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

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

There's always merit to having a debate.