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Quotes About Rhetoric

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
~ Keith Ellison
I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.
~ Pete Gallego
Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
~ Ted Deutch
Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.
~ Terry Gilliam
The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
~ Dan Crenshaw
The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.
~ Stephen Miller
The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.
~ Dan Bongino
We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.
~ Diane Guerrero
We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.
~ Pramila Jayapal
How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
~ Frank Luntz
Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominant rhetoric is a line of inclusion.
~ John Ralston Saul
The Trudeau government increasingly avoids debate on important national issues by demonizing people who disagree with them.
~ Erin O'Toole
There were trust issues with Hillary Clinton I couldn't get past, and there was this inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump, which to me was incomprehensible and indefensible.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.
~ Beto O'Rourke
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.
~ Bhartrhari
The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.
~ Rush Limbaugh
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
~ Winston Churchill
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
~ Pete Hamill
I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.
~ Marcia Clark
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
~ Ralph Nader
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
~ George Galloway
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
~ Gary David Goldberg
In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the laws of our society 'writ large' - its flagrant inequalities of opportunity and disastrous results, its contempt for vast categories of our fellow human beings, its reliance on institutional violence.
~ David Dellinger