I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I don’t have anything to hide.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I don’t have all the answers.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Good writing is like a windowpane.