Quotes About Communication

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.