Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters…

Rhetoric matters, and what candidates say is not simply for show.

— Jamelle Bouie

I think that policy matters. I'm a policy guy.

— Pete Buttigieg

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

— Marco Rubio

Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.

— David Sirota

Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,…

— Thomas Sowell

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me…

— Marcus Aurelius

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Carly Fiorina

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established…

— Michael Josephson

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the…

— Richard Whately

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the…

— Margaret Geller

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

— J. D. Hayworth

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the…

— Dennis Prager