Persuasive Quotes

You're trying to present a persuasive case that your client should not be found guilty. You're saying that even if my client did it, this is not a case that warrants conviction. - Robert Ray

You could make a very strong and persuasive argument that Katherine Harris is responsible for George Bush being the president of the United States. That argument being made, it would seem to me her IOU list would be infinitely long. - Tom Slade

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive. - Dianne Feinstein

We're trying our best to persuasively negotiate, and we are not using force at this time. I cannot speak to the future. If we find it necessary, we will do so. ... We would like to make this a last resort. - Sherry Landry

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. - Christopher Hitchens

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. - John Kenneth Galbraith

We still believe that what you tell people should reflect the available data, even if you are a little more inclined to act in the face of uncertainty. We didn't find the sudden-death data very persuasive. - Robert Temple

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light. - Henry David Thoreau

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. - Dennis Prager