#rhetoric

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside. ↗

— Zell Miller

#campaign #deep #deep inside #how #inside

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#action #big #great #great nation #merely

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#america #because #bobby #campaign #care

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#arms race #beat #been #country #down

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#easy #flourish #out #problems #rhetorical

Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#agenda #contribution #doomed #economic #elements

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#audiences #avoided #could #country #each

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.' ↗

— Karl Rove

#credibility #disaster #good #great #guy

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#comes #ground #just #needed #rhetoric