If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate. You [Donald Trump] should meet with some of the women that I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him,… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
This rhetoric that Donald Trump is used is very consistent with rhetoric he's used on the campaign trail for a long time… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all… — Adam J. Banks Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to… — Ramachandra Guha 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
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 unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
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
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge… — David Lammy 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
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
![“Using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate. You [Donald Trump] should meet with some of the women that I have met with, women I have known over the course of my life. This is one of the worst possible choices that any woman and her family has to make.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/hillary-clinton-51_choices_using-that-kind-of-scare-rhetoric-is-jus_212116.jpg)
![“The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.” quote by Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/059/kenneth-burke-22616_action_the-most-characteristic-concern-of-rheto_169251.jpg)
![“The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it's to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/barack-obama-17_analogies_the-quibble-i-have-with-president-barack_927966.jpg)
