Quotes About Rhetoric

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

I could never vote for Trump. His divisive rhetoric is unacceptable and I just could never support him.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Words are weapons of war.

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.