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)

    “Like man and wife who nightly keep
    Inconsequent debate in sleep
    As they dream side by side.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)