Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric… — William Blake Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the… — Chris Collins Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric doesn't simply sit in a silo. It interacts with the world, creating and fuming hatred that leads to… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For 18 months, leading up to the November election, I did everything in my power to show how ridiculous and crazy Trump's… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
Obama microtargeted his way to re-election by pitting Americans against each other in many instances. In order to confront the challenges the… — Kevin Madden Copy Share Image
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these… — Allen Boyd Copy Share Image
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And we need a president who is a uniter, not a divider; who can lower the temperature, not raise the temperature. And… — Jeh Johnson Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote… By buying into the rhetoric that there are… — Carla Howell Copy Share Image
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image