#rhetoric

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#citizens #colleagues #critical #dubai #finally

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

— Brent Scowcroft

#changes #far #his #mainly #nature

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

— Gerrit Smith

#am #care #comparatively #i #i am

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ↗

— Donna Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#rhetoric #humor

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#consistently #convincing #given #his #past

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers

(William) Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language. ↗

— Henry Adams

#leadership #rhetoric #inspirational

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows. ↗

— John Doolittle

#getting #heard #hoping #newspapers #outlandish

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#better #hispanics #minorities #much #policies