Quotes about Rhetoric

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

This exceptionalism is deeply present in American public rhetoric and every political leader must subscribe to it. Moreover, appeal to this exceptionalism as God's chosen people can cover a multitude of sins, for example, economic injustice and political oligarchy, all in the name of chosenness.