Quotes About Rhetoric

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.

And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would fall flat.

A política é em grande parte dominada por estribilhos moralistas desprovidos de qualquer verdade.

I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.

Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of 'self-deportation' for illegal immigrants - and the Obama team never let Hispanics forget it. The Obama campaign also branded Republicans with Romney's ill-chosen words about 47 percent of Americans as the party of uncaring millionaires.

We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

As all Members of Parliament know, the ease and flow of making a speech outside the House is not at all the same as that required in the Chamber.

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you're getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn't everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

Stuart Stevens

Republicans have built a political ecosphere that thrives on deceit and lies.

Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican Party are the paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows, the stations you listened to on long drives because it was hard to fall asleep while laughing. When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.