#rhetoric

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#bites #congress #hard #hard work #horse

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #appeal #broad #force #masses

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i

I got my degree in rhetoric. ↗

— Alex Borstein

#got #i #rhetoric

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#never #rhetoric #soapbox #stand #trade

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#bill clinton #clinton #echoes #hearing #i

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly. ↗

— John Fund

#comes #dearly #evidence #more #rhetoric

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#breakdown #concealing #crisis #effect #moral

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism