[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce’s question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother’s or his father’s side]A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape...

…anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as...

He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that...

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

There is a big chasm between rhetoric and the budget process.

Euro-zone data flow this morning will encourage further hawkish rhetoric from the ECB.

They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

whoever approaches his goal dances

Let’s take the time to clear the air of loathsome partisan rhetoric.

Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea...

… there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment;...