Rhetoric Vs Reality Quotes

The reality often times does not match the rhetoric. The rhetoric is very easy if you keep the reality secret.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

Some of the workmen are shrewd Politicians whose sole object is to furnish the public with words instead of things; others, ordinary scribblers of abstractions, or even ignoramuses, and unable to distinguish words from things, imagine that they are framing laws by stringing together a lot of phrases

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

Parties make less difference in reality that they claim in rhetoric. The worst that parties threatened to do is not likely to come to pass—as well as the best that they aspire to.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

It doesn’t matter that the President believes in Jesus. The Klu Klux Klan believed in Jesus. It doesn’t matter how you do the rhetoric; it’s how you do the reality.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions.

We have a lot of comments on the news, we have a lot of rhetoric over what an immigrant is and what a deportee is, but you don't hear any real stories. I don't think we ever had the chance to really tell our side.