Body Quote by Anthony Trollope

Our meetings would go much faster if no one spoke.

— Anonymous

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these…

— Elizabeth Emken

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

— Ray Dalio

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.

— Edwin Catmull

There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

— Mason Cooley

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

— David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution…

— Mark Udall