We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

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

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.