You Talkin' To Me? Quotes

“Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing—whereas you, you’re just speaking the plain truth as you see it.”
― Sam Leith, Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

“Perhaps most important of all, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, you will be seeking to persuade your audience that you are one of them: that your interests and their interests are identical in this case or, to be more convincing, in all cases.”
― Sam Leith, Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

“We live, thanks to the reach of our technologies, in perhaps the most argumentative age of any in history.”
― Sam Leith, You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama