The article deals with the issues of oratory of a politician, which have not yet been sufficiently studied in socio-political science. The article deals in detail with the following issues: political speeches and their emotional assessment; discourse in political speeches; the concepts of justice and law in the speeches of politicians; some popular ideas about the features of modern society, to which a political speaker could refer, etc. The article notes that every politician who knows his own worth understands the value of an open dialogue with the opponent and the opposition: people, even the most intelligent and experienced, have the ability to err, or even lie, and the dialogue gives an opportunity to show this by the example of an opponent. When dealing with an opponent who is clearly deluded, who does not know the truth, it should be different from the one who is clearly lying, consciously asserts an untruth. Using the means of metalanguage, the speaker-politician can easily express the differences between these attitudes to the opponent. At the same time, the article also pays attention to controversial issues.