Quotes About Rhetoric

We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.

British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which is the antithesis of the values this country represents: decency, tolerance, respect.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Without in any way minimizing the role of violence in our lives, I am looking, simultaneously, at how a heightened rhetoric of threat that confuses doing nothing, normative conflict, and resistance with actual abuse, has produced a wide practice of over- stating harm.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

To pander to those who have no stomach for straight language, and insist upon bland, non controversial sauces, is a waste of time. They cannot on deliberately will not understand what we are discussing here.

The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mobilizing their heaviest artillery of thunder and brimstone, threatened Christians with all manner of dire consequences if they should vote for the 'in fidel' from Virginia. This was particularly true in New England, where the clergy stood like Gibraltar against Jefferson .

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.