Quotes About Rhetoric

Istenkém – mondta Bogus?awski –, nagyhatalom lettünk a mellébeszélésben.

El discurso populista es por excelencia el del movimiento bueno contra el gobierno malo.

[On Warren G. Harding:] He writes the worst English I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.

It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and they studied trigonometry.

A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

But I was falling prey to that old self-serving notion that well-intended rhetoric can remove a stone bruise from the soul.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able to mobilise the population against an enemy and that imagined enemy is the United States.

To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

[Donald Trump] tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers.

The contrast between Hillary Clinton, a champion for women and families versus Donald Trump who has alienated women across the country with his offensive and insulting rhetoric, could not be clearer.

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.