Rhetoric Quotes - Page 17

• There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

  Richard Glover

  Desire, Trying, Done

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Guy, Risk

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

  Julian Assange

  Police, Ecuador, Asylums

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

  Julian Assange

  Police, Crime, Pretending

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Assessment, Trying, United States

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I think Donald Trump is the best person for the job. It comes back to redemption campaign rhetoric. They all say that stuff.[Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton said that about each other.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Thinking, Campaigns

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Government, Europe

  Source: time.com

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• If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that wasn't the territory of poetry. I think that's pretty smart. I think that it doesn't need to be altogether true, but that was my starting place.

  Robert Hass

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.

  Megyn Kelly

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

  Raila Odinga

  Past, Practice, Paper

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Unions, Used, Marxist

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• I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

  Edward Snowden

  Liberty, Facts, Arguing

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Government, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Wings, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

  Lindsey Graham

  Gone, Absurd, Trump

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Play, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Media, Should Have, Car

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me. He gave me the words to defend myself and the argumentative rhetoric to master discussions with others.

  Raoul Peck

  Mentor, Important, Adults

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Wings, Government

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nuclear, Movement, Weapons

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.

  Margaret Hoover

  Country, Teacher, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity. [Adults] definitely need to put it in context. I've talked to people who are literally struggling to sleep because they're anxious. Children pick up on that. Talk to your kid. Tell them, "this is what's bothering me." Explain that what's going on is unacceptable.

  Eric Walters

  Children, Struggle, Sleep

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Trump's rhetoric is undermining America's credibility, undermining America's leadership and strength in Europe, even without him being president. The rhetoric itself is very damaging. Obviously, if you were to try to implement any of that rhetoric as president, it would be catastrophic for America's interests.

  Derek Chollet

  Europe, America, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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