My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There were trust issues with Hillary Clinton I couldn't get past, and there was this inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump, which to… — Ernie Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
I think people are kind of tired of the really amped-up rhetoric that passes for a lot of political dialogue, and they… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice… — G. H. (George Herbert) Mair Copy Share Image
We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Trump's divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won't play well with the general public, either. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Most of the population in America is disenfranchised. It doesn't matter what they think. Just look at the passionate rhetoric about how… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Donald Trump was able to make it to the White House in part because he campaigned as an outsider running on anti-establishment… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.” — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's… — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll tell you who he's going to be president of. You can tell Donald: the Queens County Bullies Association. You've got to… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his positions to the satisfaction of our… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image