Communication Quote by Mark Udall

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides…

— Jim Leach

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

— Michael J. Knowles

Comparison leads to violence.

— Mandy Patinkin

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

— John Poindexter

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Politics is a substitute for violence.

— Dick Gephardt

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

— William Safire

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

— Deeyah Khan

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a…

— Herman Kahn

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

— Anonymous

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

— Mario Cuomo