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

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

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.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.