Persuasions Quotes

This demonstration will reflect, by far, the most diverse group of antiwar protesters since before the war began. We have people coming from all political persuasions, including a very large number of people who have never before been part of the antiwar movement or protest activity. - Brian Becker

There is a sense here among people of ...both persuasions here that we need to get this over with. There is a danger of this thing spinning out of control again and going on way too long. And that's the sense I got today from my colleagues. - Christopher Dodd

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares . . . - John Clare

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. - Francis Arinze

People of quite different ideological persuasions have come to endorse empathy and altruism. Liberals of course have traditionally supported social programs to care for the disadvantaged and, as highlighted by President Bush's 'compassionate conservative' self-labeling, many of those to the right also embrace altruism. Likewise, religious conservatives always have emphasized empathy and altruism as a part of Christian charity. - Tom Smith

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible. - Harry Reid

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. - Robert H. Jackson

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. - Alan Greenspan