Quotes About Communication

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.

I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

If I have to convey some message to different parts of the state, then the state capital offers me the best platform.

There is a small industry out there called media training. It offers instruction on how to 'control a narrative,' to use that awful term. Most politicians are clients.

By creating a feedback culture within your office, you ensure that people continue to learn, grow, and challenge themselves.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

I am open with the players, with my media officer, and also the media.

People tell me ridiculous things and then say they're joking. Like, at the Dubai immigration, the officer told me that I've been banned from Dubai. I almost started crying which is when he said that he was joking!

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Think of de-escalation as a guardrail that helps slow down a situation, so both officers and San Diegans go home safely.

The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices.

What I have made very clear to my ministers is that I expect them to provide briefings on legislation and any issues pertaining to their electorate. Now I understand some ministerial staffers and offices have gone beyond that and I'll be speaking to my ministers that that will stop.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories.

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that.

And I think when you're an elected official, rightly so, you should watch what you say.