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The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.
- Eugene Jarecki
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I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.
- Viktor Yanukovych
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One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.
- Stephen Kinzer
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I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.
- Sir Mix-a-Lot
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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
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The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.
- Isaac Herzog
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Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.
- Neri Oxman
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Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.
- John Ridley
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We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.
- David Boies
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At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
- Matt Gonzalez
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
- J. D. Hayworth
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The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.
- Mario Diaz-Balart
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My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.
- Brian Kemp
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
- Ibrahim Hooper
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The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
- Dick Morris
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Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle, there seems to be different tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling back of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.
- Kayla Tausche
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The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.
- Richard Grenell
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In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.
- Ryan Zinke
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Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and the middle class got wiped out. That's really what Trump appealed to and inspired in the forgotten man.
- Steve Scalise
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I got my degree in rhetoric.
- Alex Borstein
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My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.
- Alex Borstein
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So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
- Howard Dean
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
- Kamala Harris
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Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.
- Matthew Stewart
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We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
- Michael T. Flynn
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Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It's a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.
- Jeh Johnson
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It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
- Jeh Johnson
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We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship.
- Dave Rubin
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The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.
- Margaret Geller
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The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
- Peter Shaffer
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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
- Gerrit Smith
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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
- Russell Baker
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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
- Pete Hamill
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More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
- Wen Jiabao
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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
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Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
- John Delaney
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
- Gary Bauer
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Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
- Ray Comfort
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Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
- Bruce Schneier
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Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.
- Stephen Graham Jones
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Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
- Martha Nussbaum
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Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.
- Paul Johnson
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
- Aristotle
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
- Aristotle
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
- Friedrich Schiller
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
- Octavio Paz
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
- William Butler Yeats
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Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
- Thomas Sowell
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- Thomas Sowell
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Plato
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