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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
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
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
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 desirableall 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
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
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
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
— William Penn
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
— John Piper
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
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
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 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
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
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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
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
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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 rhetoricis 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
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The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.
— Mark Forsyth
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
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
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
