#rhetoric

HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #bring #chance #comedy #does

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#administration #conflict #ending #forward #government

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #came #colleagues #cut #daily

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#beyond #democrats #discourse #goes #hate

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american economy #bills #congress #dangerous #economy

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#caught #comments #get #i #made

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#easy #eventually #fall #follow #people

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