Quotes About Rhetoric

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Politics has become entertainment.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.