Able Quote by James Green Somerville

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

— Jack McDevitt

I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say…

— Edwidge Danticat

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted…

— Leo Buscaglia

Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are…

— Jimmy Carter

Others like myself will carry on meeting constituents, but doing it in a very safe environment, that's the key to us. That's what we…

— Lindsay Hoyle

I have to listen to people, and I always try to meet people with understanding.

— Matty Healy

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or…

— Donella Meadows

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak…

— Brian Lumley

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

— Charles de Gaulle

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks…

— Tom Latham

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

— Millicent Fenwick

In congressional offices, you don't have the ability to hire enough people to have a dedicated speechwriter. So mine is my communications director, who…

— Colin Allred