Matters Quote by Jamelle Bouie Download Open image “Rhetoric matters, and what candidates say is not simply for show.” — Jamelle Bouie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Matters Rhetoric Say Show Simply
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground. — Baldwin Spencer Copy Share Image
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see… — Mary Beard 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 of your… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a trial and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
By no means is Trump the first president or even the first Republican president to abuse the power of the office in an effort… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For liberals in particular, the idea that government is only hypocrisy and dysfunction is self-defeating and nihilistic. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering Republicans and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part of the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have always come… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to shrink the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more. — Iker Casillas Copy Share Image
When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters. — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share Image
When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox. — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
I'm competitive, I'll look to do my job on the field, and that's all that matters. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
