Fear Quote by Richard Dawkins

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would…

— William S. Burroughs

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

— Jane Austen

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

— Barney Frank

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

— Nikki Sixx

“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of…

— George Orwell

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

— Mary Gaitskill

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start…

— Frank Luntz

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

— Jim Rogers

As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.

— Justin Trudeau