Okieriete Onaodowan

Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you're getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn't everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?

American Actor

John Podesta

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

American Lawyer

Richard Rodgers

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

American Composer

Jeh Johnson

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.

American Public Servant

Zell Miller

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.

American Politician

Lauren Bush

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Model

Wen Jiabao

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Chinese Statesman

Tommy Thompson

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

Peter Shaffer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

English Playwright

John Fund

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Rhetoric is used in essays or speeches to argue a point convincingly.

Argumentative Writing

Writers often use rhetorical devices such as metaphors to connect with their audience.

Persuasive Tools

Good rhetoric is tailored to the audience's values and beliefs for maximum impact.

Audience Awareness

Sometimes rhetoric is used to impress rather than to convey substance.

Hollow Words

Be skeptical of rhetoric that sounds impressive but lacks concrete details.

Critical Listening

Effective communication balances persuasive rhetoric with factual information.

Substance Over Style

Rhetoric is not just speaking well, it's an area of study with rules and techniques.

Academic Discipline

Understanding classical rhetoric gives insight into historical speeches and texts.

Historical Importance

Rhetoric principles apply across languages and are not confined to English.

Beyond English

 and standing with women and not against them and pretending that somehow this is a battle between the sexes and other kinds of nonsense. We live in the world together. And by the way, one of the things that really bothers me about some of the rhetoric against feminists and others who have built the battered women's and rape crisis movements around the world

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 the great increase in mass incarceration in this country wasn't really in violent crime categories it was this misguided war on drugs now that's where the dramatic increases have come in our prison population and we got carried away with the rhetoric of punishment and so we have three strikes laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a

We need to talk about an...

 where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. In both cases, the speaker's present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding or achieving it. But what makes for good deliberative rhetoric, besides the future tense?

How to use rhetoric to...

 It was this misguided war on drugs. That's where the dramatic increases have come in our prison population. And we got carried away with the rhetoric of punishment. And so we have "Three Strikes" laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a bicycle, for low-level property crimes,

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 And the third one Do free bed nets discourage future purchase? The third one is important because if we think people get used to handouts, it might destroy markets to distribute free bed nets. Now this is a debate that has generated a lot of emotion and angry rhetoric.

Esther Duflo: Social...

 you think this way but here's the truth your parents are lying to you the government's lying to you and they start brainwashing you you start talking to them on a regular basis and you know you start believing the rhetoric the other major vehicle for recruitment

Skinheads Recruiting...

 us to do because people in telling their stories are putting themselves into the story and that breaks down these kinds of assumptions and it helps connect be people beyond rhetoric and that's element number three connections so when

Violence is a failure of...

 or bail out an investment bank. It's sure to help. Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric.

John Bohannon: Dance vs....

 is spend a little bit more time on things like the humanities and sociology, and the social sciences, rhetoric, philosophy, ethics, because they give us context that is so important for big data, and because

Susan Etlinger: What do...

 pitting humanity versus technology. And this competitive rhetoric is standard now. We are in a race against the machines, in a fight or even in a war. Jobs are being killed off.