Presidential Debate

The Presidential Debates are held every presidential term, vital for the citizens to vote for the next president of America.

Presidential debates may refer to:

  • Leaders debate, which occur within Parliamentary forms of government
  • French presidential debates, held on television since 1974
  • United States presidential election debates, debates that occur between the main candidates for the American President, often after the primary elections.

Famous quotes containing the words presidential and/or debate:

    Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    My first debate in high school—”Resolved: Girls are no good”—and I won!
    Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)