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For all the manufactured 'Republican versus Democrat' drama that dominates today's cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide - it's a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings.
Letitia James
Today
News
Democracy
Political
Consequences
Drama
Our
Striking
System
Corrupt
Feature
Divide
Cable
Most
Democrat
Partisan
Protects
Real
Versus
Rhetoric
Republican
Brings
Present-Day
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
Martin Jacques
Old
Will
Example
Power
Ideology
Action
Believe
Every
Has-Been
Moral
Lies
Seeks
Invariably
No Reason
Almost
Major
For Example
Particularly
Hills
Always
Been
West
Any
Behaviour
Behind
Different
Rhetoric
China
Interest
Justify
Reason
Grounds
Vigorous
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell
Truth
Government
Lie
Light
Remove
Design
Our
Consideration
Way
Those
Excite
Reduce
Due
Passions
Subject
Rhetoric
Place
Prejudices
Reasons
Right
What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.
Mary Beard
Truth
Speak
Sometimes
Will
Politicians
Pay
Think
See
Price
Never
Wrong
Fair
Trade-Off
Get
Rhetoric
Now
Right
I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.
Matt Rosendale
Debate
Believe
Side
Rhetoric
Either
Productive
Using
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
Rank
Out
Ministers
Consultants
Through
Like
Message
Client
Smooth
Condense
Repeat
Rhetoric
Information
Then
Unify
File
Ad
Amplify
Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.
Max Joseph
Bullying
Rulers
Admiration
More
Open
He
Blatant
Come
Hints
Trump
Than
Authoritarian
Just
Rhetoric
Mean
Elected
I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.
Meghan McCain
Work
Day
Every Day
World
Try
Father
Every
Thinking
Out
About
He
Put
Come
Still
Done
Going
Rhetoric
Really
Here
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.
Meghan McCain
Love
Character
People
Matter
Think
President
President Trump
Those
He
Know
Him
Understand
Greatest
Trump
Greatest Thing
Shocked
America
Rhetoric
Happened
To Love
Them
Who
Ever
Right
Thing
Defend
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
Mehdi Hasan
Failure
Political
Strategy
Defeat
Pandering
Has-Been
Moral
Pens
Stealing
Voters
French
Policies
Been
Trying
Rhetoric
Elites
Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations and helped to dampen his volatile mood swings.
Michael Beschloss
First
Important
Strategy
Relations
Our
Mood
Mood Swings
Johnson
Volatile
Firmly
Most
She
Advised
His
Quietly
Personal
Ladies
Rhetoric
Helped
Swings
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington
Old
Seen
Important
Important Things
Neglected
Worse
About
Simply
Invisible
Most
Reform
Forgotten
The Most Important
Rhetoric
Them
Poor
Much
Things
Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.
Murray Rothbard
Depression
Business
Problem
Liberal
Way
Solve
Classical
Blend
Fiscal
Going
Rhetoric
Cycle
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.
Paul Broun
Will
Made
Other
President
Statements
States
Threaten
Sincerity
Condemn
Official
Any
Rhetoric
Cannot
Against
Public
Use
Tolerated
United
United States
Jest
Suggest
Violence
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
Business
Hatred
President
Boom
Obama
Would
Would-Be
Super
Demeanor
Obvious
Well
Empty
His
Bravado
Disheartening
Rhetoric
Grim
Even
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
Angry
Stage
Lying
Others
Draws
Thousands
Wounded
Someone
Through
He
Steps
Rhetoric
Either
Sword
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
Peter Shaffer
Music
Character
Key
Piece
Verbal
Rhetoric
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
Dangerous
Gun
Hair
Holding
Pay
Congress
Our
Trigger
Head
Economy
Hill
Got
Very
American
Heated
Getting
Quite
American Economy
Rhetoric
Bills
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie - the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents.
Rebecca Traister
Politics
Progressive
Carolina
Kind
Guy
More
Cleaner
He
Look
Attractive
Does
Contests
Opponents
His
Clinton
South
Campaign
South Carolina
Southern
Than
Any
Rhetoric
Deployed
Centered
Which
Bill
Bill Clinton
Premise
Whose
Plays
In 2008, I started the election season as a critic of Hillary Clinton, a fan of Barack Obama, and a supporter of John Edwards. But by the end of Clinton's historic drive toward nomination, the gendered rhetoric used against her - as well as the way so many men in my own party diminished the value of electing a female president - had radicalized me.
Rebecca Traister
Me
Election
Value
Men
Drive
Party
Own
President
Way
Diminished
Critic
Obama
John
John Edwards
My Own
Had
Supporter
Toward
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Nomination
Well
Female
Clinton
Historic
End
Fan
Rhetoric
Against
Barack
Barack Obama
Used
Many
Season
Her
Started
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
Time
News
Political
Party
Philip
Complains
State
Our
Promptly
About
Outlet
Parker
Point
Invitations
Voter
Polish
Cemetery
Rhetoric
Ashley
Them
Video
Next
Should
Uninformed
Next Time
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').
Rick Perlstein
Government
Army
Enemy
Past
President
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Back
Way
Further
Has-Been
Obamacare
Entwined
Been
Than
Rhetoric
After
In The Past
Grand
Republic
Racial
Jefferson
Start
I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.
Roger Goodell
Myself
Made
Caught
Up
Comments
Get
Personal
Any
Rhetoric
In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.
Ron Kind
Opportunity
Year
Believe
President
Back
Back Up
Willing
Make
Sure
Coming
His
Up
Legacy
America
Substance
Rhetoric
Land
Lives
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
Political
Before
Control
Out
Sunni
Weapons
Seeing
Alongside
Empowering
Without
Chemical
Leaving
Were
Kurds
Iraq
Left
Exodus
Effects
Stable
Just
Rhetoric
Them
Agreement
Fought
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri
People
Will
Fall
Slogans
Easy
Follow
Very
Rhetoric
Eventually
Away
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