Tony Blankley Quotes

If you can’t fit your argument on a bumper sticker, you’ve lost the debate.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

In oratory the will must predominate.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

It is very difficult to deliver nuance in a campaign. Campaigns are about contrasts.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

I could sway people with words—words that welled up within me.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.