But with Elián, it wasn't to be; the jaw-jaw rhetoric raised too high.
Still, when Robert Fico (pictured above), the prime minister, said the country had been "established for Slovaks, not for minorities" in a recent speech, both the tenor and timing of the rhetoric raised eyebrows.
"Rather, they are part of the problem, stuck in the old paradigm that all employees are weak and powerless (childlike?), and that all employers are greedy and exploitative, interested only in profits and self-aggrandizement". Competition for labor, not unions and their "Marxist socialist rhetoric," raises wages and working standards, he argued.
On the campaign trail, Trump's pro-Israel rhetoric raised expectations that he would act quickly to move the embassy.
While campaigns soliciting volunteers to become election observers is not unusual, Trump's record of divisive rhetoric raises the specter of voter intimidation, with his calls for volunteers to appear at polling sites on election day.
Despite rhetoric over raising the debt ceiling by some lawmakers, Geithner is confident the debt limit will eventually be increased, an official said.
But his rhetoric has raised the stakes.
Cut through all the rhetoric, billions raised, billions spent, no idea where the money has gone.
"It's not suited to America".Such rhetoric would raise few eyebrows if it came from a Democrat.
A spokesman for the university, Brigid O'Brien, said the group's rhetoric had "raised some questions and we had some strong objections as a Jesuit university".
