Language Quote by Barton Swaim

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

— Michael Wolff

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

— William Safire

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

— Kory Stamper

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

— Reuven Rivlin

Hmmm! certain words have no definitions for them like politics and it is so cause people don't want to waste their time in defining…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed…

— Linda McMahon

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the…

— George Orwell

“Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in…

— Neale Donald Walsch

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy…

— George Orwell

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

— Hannah Arendt