Amount Quote by Ed Gillespie

I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and…

— Chris Collins

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

— Brent Scowcroft

“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion,…

— George will

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their…

— Charles Koch

More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.

— Chris Murphy

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it?…

— Errol Morris

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then…

— John F. Kerry

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

— Joy Reid

Political discourse in America has gotten so out of control that it's emboldened people to ruin the lives of those they disagree with.

— Chuck Woolery

In fact, by Democrats pursuing the strategy of attacking everything President Trump does as the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it stuff, their criticism has just become white noise to…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

— Gary Bauer