Quotes About Communication

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.