Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Never find fault with the absent.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I don’t write letters anymore.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.