Quotes About Rhetoric

There's a lot of rhetoric out here, a lot of talk about giving young people opportunity. Just looking so deeply into the RFK Children's Action Corps, I can see that they are really, really living that mandate.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Liberals lie then cry prove us wrong.

The only difference between compassionate conservatism and conservatism is that under compassionate conservatism they tell you they're not going to help you but they're really sorry about it.

Truthful hyperbole' is a contradiction in terms. It's a way of saying, 'It's a lie, but who cares?' 

In rich democracies, the same factors that confer household bargaining power on women also have a positive effect on fertility. We interpret this to mean that women would like to "have it all" as long as having children does not block their possibilities of accumulating human capital in the labor market. Trying to boost fertility with a campaign of pro-family rhetoric and incentives is likely to have precisely the opposite effect as intended.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.