Bushism Quote by Ben Zimmer

Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them.…

— David Letterman

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she…

— Conan O'Brien

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it,…

— Joe Bageant

I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.

— Barry Levinson

It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what…

— Rachel Maddow

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

— Margaret Heffernan

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

— Rachel Maddow

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking,…

— Rosanne Cash

Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician,…

— Barry Levinson

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

— George Will

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions.…

— Ron Paul

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you…

— Margaret Heffernan