Rhetoric Quotes · Page 11

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

— Tommy Thompson

“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Kevin Brady

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

— Ron Fournier

“What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)”

— Aristotle

“The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Alexander Stubb

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is…

— Edward Snowden

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

— David Harsanyi

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but…

— Carly Fiorina

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about…

— Judy Woodruff

Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come…

— Max Joseph

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

— Carly Fiorina

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him…

— Jonathan Swift

It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members…

— Alastair Campbell

Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad.…

— Chad Griffin

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of…

— Aristotle

“Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules,…

— Robert Lane Greene

These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a…

— Hakeem Jeffries

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he…

— Joseph Stiglitz

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Jeremy Collier

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

— Charles Schumer

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

— Nyla Ali Khan

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Kamala Harris

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

— Kevin Faulconer

Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

— Lindsey Graham

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

— Shirley Chisholm

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

— Robert Downey Sr

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

— Alice Meynell

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

— Martha Ronk

“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

— Amit Kalantri