Bites Quote by John Silber

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

— Hilaire Belloc

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

— Richard Dawkins

The political classes are despised when they deal in sound bites, embrace tokenistic campaigns and feather their own nests while trying to please all…

— Ann Widdecombe

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

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

— Thomas Sowell

“Like most so-called debates between liberals and conservatives, they weren’t interested in listening or responding to each other. They were solely concerned with making…

— Bob Frey

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

— Pete Hoekstra

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics is awful.

— Elizabeth May

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Political discourse in America has gotten so out of control that it's emboldened people to ruin the lives of those they disagree with.

— Chuck Woolery

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

— Vladimir Putin