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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

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.