We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
Rhetoric Quotes (198 Quotes)
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
I hope that we've done something to facilitate a detente on threatening rhetoric,
I don't think there's any need to be concerned about it, ... I think this is just another paragraph in a very long book of fiery rhetoric, that we've heard for many years.
No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.
The most classic case of the Peter Principle I've ever seen in American politics. In a business where eloquence and rhetoric is important, he is a man of no talent whatsoever.
If it is rhetoric, it is to balance the perception that that they are responsible for the high prices.
Our founders insisted on checks on presidential power to protect our nation's legacy of liberty. The Senate Intelligence Committee must transcend party politics and insist on facts, not rhetoric. The American people deserve the truth, not a whitewash by their elected representatives. Our security and liberty are far too important to be sacrificed in order to protect a president that has hidden from Congress and the public his decision that he need not follow the laws that protect the rights of ordinary Americans.
Ken Blackwell refuses to debate, once again demonstrating his reliance on negative attacks and empty rhetoric.
I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.
The absence of such a charismatic figure who controls single-handedly the political apparatus will be very significant to the political map. Right now you have a weakened government. The weaker you are, the more insecure you are, and the more hard-line you are. And, of course, during elections you have heightened rhetoric, so we do not expect anything to be benign at this point.
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
A lot of people would expect the rhetoric to heat up after Labor Day and in the final stretch. But my goodness, the first week of February This year may be tougher than ever.
Sometimes I think if they offered more real leadership and less rhetoric, we'd get a lot more done,
These populist authoritarian policies are good for rhetoric, but they have to broaden the system of government to make them work.
I think the conclusion of the convention brought a big sigh of relief. Rhetoric wasn't as bad as it could have been, and there was no terrorist attack, when the FBI and others had warned that was a possibility.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth than rhetoric, to make good his accusation
I think Joe's thing is going to be he's going to be a very Type-A kind of guy that's going to have it all covered, ... He's going to be well prepared. As a player, especially as a starting pitcher, you want your club as a whole to always feel that this game is the most important game tonight. Not only in rhetoric, but also preparation.
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.
Beijing has been accusing the U. S. of hegemony over the past few days. But that rhetoric is targeted at a domestic audience, not the Americans,
This matter was taken up by President Pervez Musharraf with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when they spoke over phone and two sides decided to bring down rhetoric,
During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.
At the end I asked them a rhetorical question 'We still have work to do right' ... But I believe we're getting better. The spirit is excellent. I'm not sure what the psychological effect of a fourth tie would be. Certainly there's joy and pride in any win at all, but to do it in this fashion is extra special.
Iran has worked with the United States after 911. I don't understand why this administration is, once again, leading us towards a war. We need this administration not only to tone down its rhetoric, but stop this belief that somehow the United States should be the policeman of the world,
There was clearly a disappointment in the rhetoric from the Fed. It's just a buyers strike.
I come from a place that likes grandeur it likes large gestures it is not inhibited by flourish it is a rhetorical society it is a society of physical performance it is a society of style.
We are surprised that despite all of the rhetoric of good government and cleaning up politics the Legislature would consider removing the limits on corporate influence in local elections.
proved once again that substance will always trump campaign rhetoric.
Instead of a State of the Union address, the president kicked off his re-election campaign. His speech was long on rhetoric and short on resources.
Their rhetoric is that perhaps God's blessing has been removed and we can't expect to be protected.
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
This administration made great promises to the states about working as partners when it comes to managing and protecting our national forestlands - however its action has yet to match its rhetoric.
Particularly the rhetoric they use around the things like marriage, where instead of advocating for fairness and inclusion, they actually advocate discrimination.
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.
I hope so, ... It isn't as if we're looking for things to have extended debate on. We need to work together and I think this week has established that. But how can we work together when information is not supplied So, I hope that we'll all slow down the rhetoric during the break.
We ought not politicize the rhetoric about war and life and death.
The rhetoric is much different this time - this time they're really out to get each other.
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
If you substitute terrorism for communism, we are getting the same rhetoric.
I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.
The dollar's weakness stems from many factors. The China news is one of them, ... It is great electioneering rhetoric, but the import quotas will not stem the tide of Chinese textile imports... nor any other imports from China.
These frustrations have only gotten worse even as the rhetoric that 'democracy is coming' has increased.
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
Yes, there is an emergency but this is not just an emergency, it's obviously a chronic crisis, ... This thing has been going on a long time and political rhetoric doesn't stop it.
Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U. S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
It didn't look like anything much was going to happen in the middle of the election rhetoric, but we ended up seeing a pretty good advance after all.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
It's the first time that this administration gives evidence that it is prepared to roll up its sleeves and to do some hard work that goes beyond simply the rhetorical declarations of support for a two states solution.