Quotes About Rhetoric

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.'

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

There is no one quite like Trump for forensically demolishing the opposition.

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Modi is a great orator.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Contrary to some of the rhetoric we've heard, AB5 does not automatically reclassify any ride-share drivers from independent contractors to employees. AB5 does not provide drivers with benefits, nor does it give drivers the right to organize.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.