Quotes About Rhetoric

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

Many political candidates, in their speeches and negative ads, create an image of dire consequences if their opponent wins. If you vote for the other candidate, you and the country will suffer—jobs will be lost, crime will rise, family values will erode, and your very freedoms will be stripped away.

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity.

Trump's Deep State is just a variation of Joe McCarthy's mythical Communists infesting the State Department, the "enemies within.

Stripped of any pretense of governing philosophy, a political party will default to being controlled by those who shout the loudest and are unhindered by any semblance of normalcy. It isn't the quiet fans in the stands who get on television but the lunatics who paint their bodies with the team colors and go shirtless on frigid days.

A populist is, basically, a gifted story teller; someone who can tell a false story well. And the way to fight them is by telling a true story better.

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Socialism is a movement that loves a smear.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head, they offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems.

Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I believe will solve these problems.'

How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens - is a question I don't expect ever to be solved.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

the power of language

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.