Rhetoric Vs Action Quotes

Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.

I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.

Pretty damn good speech. Now if all you had to do to run for and be president was talk, Adlai'd be the best. But it ain't.

Conservatives look to deeds. They're not bought off by rhetoric.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

The gap is widening between France’s proud diplomatic rhetoric and the nation’s ability to translate words into action.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

I think strong rhetoric and strong action are two separate things. Anyone can use tough words. Anyone can go over the top and say things that sound strong. But sounding strong is not enough. You have to know exactly how you're going to do it. And if you look at some of the policies he's talked about, they would not make America stronger.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

There's a lot of rhetoric out here, a lot of talk about giving young people opportunity. Just looking so deeply into the RFK Children's Action Corps, I can see that they are really, really living that mandate.