Quotes About Rhetoric

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.

My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

A politician's speech can't do what a movie or a cultural event like a song or piece of music can.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Politicians never say never to anything.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.