Quotes About Rhetoric

The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides' pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance.

Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

The high-flying rhetoric of 'Making America Great Again' frankly appeals to me. It appeals to many people. But you've got to back that up with substance, and you've got to quit offending people who may not agree with you.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

La literatura utiliza las figuras retóricas como un arma en su antagonismo con el sentido puro, con la significación abstracta que han tomado las palabras en el discurso cotidiano.

In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument

Use soft words and hard arguments.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

I had seen the poor, the meek and the modest, the young, the brave and the idealistic - all those, in fact, who always are too easily enchanted by high-sounding phrases - giving their lives and their futures in order that the powerful might have more power, the rich grow richer, the old remain in comparative security.

is just that I am not so sure — as a writer — how I feel about him using poets and historians of their caliber to push —" "Lies?" I asked. Hadn't Octavianus used a masterful campaign of besmirching my mother to turn all of Rome against my father? "Public policy," he said flatly.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.