Quotes About Rhetoric

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials.

What Fox News has become in 2020 is a conclusion of decades of right wing media and rhetoric against the rest of the media. In the '90s it was about media bias. In the 2000s it was about media bias. Now, the rhetoric is so much more extreme. It's about enemies of the people.

The candidate who promises the most has the best chance of winning.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

Aparentemente, quiere compensar los déficits que produce la austeridad con altas dosis de demagogia y moralina.

gobierna poco y mal, pero en cambio está empeñado en una permanente campaña electoral.

Ideolog na czworakach kieruje swoje deklaracje wreszcie do w?a?ciwej cz??ci cia?a tych, których próbuje przekona?.

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.

Trump's slogan to "make America great again" sounds so hollow and laughable!

His endorsement by the white supremacist American Freedom Party is the fruit of this rhetoric.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

The last year of Cicero's life, full of glory and eloquence no doubt, was ruinous to the Roman People.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.