Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen.… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted… — William Safire Copy Share Image
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
If questioning the results of a presidential election were a crime, as many have asserted in the wake of the controversial 2020… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents,… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Decades of anti-migrant rhetoric in parliament and the press has resulted in few voters having realistic ideas of the genuine level of… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity.… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Inflammatory, anti-Muslim rhetoric and threatening to ban the families and friends of Muslim Americans as well as millions of Muslim business people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image