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

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

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

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

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.