Able Quote by Norman Finkelstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

— Alex Borstein

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

— Anonymous

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the…

— Dan Quayle

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

— Aristotle

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

— Gerrit Smith

I'm not very good at speeches.

— Ben Howard

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

— Lord Chesterfield

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

— Paul Ryan

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to…

— John Scalzi

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

— Joan Blades

“Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention”

— Gerard Hauser