Quotes About Rhetoric

Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and the middle class got wiped out. That's really what Trump appealed to and inspired in the forgotten man.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more?

In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely.

You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, African Americans, former POWs, the media and, to get just a bit more specific, 'The Post.'

Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.

Jeb Bush has been labeled 'low energy,' and he will be so for the rest of his life, because Mr. Trump labeled him that way. He's a master brander. Marco Rubio is going to be 'Little Marco' forever. Ted Cruz is 'Lyin' Ted,' because that's what people understand.

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don't think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.

Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to raise your taxes up to the sky. She wants to raise.