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I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric. — Ron Fournier

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". — David Pietrusza

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems. — Gale Norton

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words. — Aaron Sorkin

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders. — Plato

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations. — Eric Dezenhall

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. — T.K. Naliaka

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers. — Barbara W. Tuchman

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. — Kamala Harris

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be. — Alexander Stubb

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes — Amy Waldman

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action. — Leonard Koren

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric. — Noam Chomsky

The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts. — Marcus Porcius Cato

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric. — Samuel Beckett

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts. — Harold Holzer

The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love. — Gore Vidal

Alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy. — Noam Chomsky

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. — Alice Meynell

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away. — Saad Hariri

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee — Harold Holzer

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let's all cry: "Peace, freedom and liberty! — Carl William Brown

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record — John Key

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. — David Harsanyi

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric. — Jerry Rubin

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric. — Thornton Wilder

But I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. — William Penn

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic. — Charles Dickens

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. — John Piper

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. — George W. Bush

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. — Gail Collins

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance. — Kate Zambreno

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric. — Eric Cantor

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective. — Samantha Harvey

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results. — Carly Fiorina

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. — Mason Cooley

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action. — Mark Udall

We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry. — Cherrie Moraga

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric. — John F. Kerry

whoever approaches his goal dances — Cormac McCarthy

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. — Cormac McCarthy

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. — Peter Shaffer

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force. — Eric Hobsbawm

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric. — Virginia Foxx

Vision is not political rhetoric. — Jean Chretien

White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools. — Barton Gellman

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. — Gerrit Smith

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. — Ron Suskind

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough. — Mason Cooley

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique. — Gerald R. Ford

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. — Thomas Sowell

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts. — Audie Cornish

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric. — Jeffrey Toobin

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going. — Jeffrey Toobin

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters. — Peter Yarrow

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — W.B.Yeats

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man. — Richard Brookhiser

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts. — Richard Brookhiser

Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this — Haidji

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. — Frank Herbert

If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is. — Sarah Wollaston

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde

Passion is all too often a cover for overwork cloaked in the rhetoric of self-fulfillment. — Miya Tokumitsu

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact. — Stephen Kinzer

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. — Harold Bloom

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth. — George Oppen

The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician. — Mark Forsyth

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon — Barbara W. Tuchman

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric. — Francois Rabelais

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right. — Jessica Valenti

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush. — George Carlin

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. — Eliot Spitzer

To suffer is better than to do evil;' and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation. — Plato

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words. — Stephen L. Carter

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric. — Justine Larbalestier

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better. — Wen Jiabao

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. — Allen Ginsberg

Republicanism was easier to evolve than to define. — Mark A. Noll

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. — Francis Quarles