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Our rogue President, after selling face time (William Safire Quotes)
Have a definite opinion (William Safire Quotes)
George Washington had a tough second term (William Safire Quotes)
The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire (William Safire Quotes)
Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks (William Safire Quotes)
English is a stretch language; one size fits all (William Safire Quotes)
Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had (William Safire Quotes)
When duty calls, that is when character counts (William Safire Quotes)
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin (William Safire Quotes)
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind’s manageable companion (William Safire Quotes)
This is what it’s all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact (William Safire Quotes)
The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit (William Safire Quotes)
The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you’re breaking (William Safire Quotes)
Never put the story in the lead. Let ‘em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes (William Safire Quotes)
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels (William Safire Quotes)
Gridlock is great. My motto is, ‘Don’t just do something. Stand there.’ (William Safire Quotes)
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy (William Safire Quotes)
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace (William Safire Quotes)
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble (William Safire Quotes)
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject (William Safire Quotes)
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking (William Safire Quotes)
Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there (William Safire Quotes)
Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It’s either collective security or selective security (William Safire Quotes)
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country (William Safire Quotes)
The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go ‘round. It’s not love, it’s that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control (William Safire Quotes)
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril (William Safire Quotes)
This is what it’s all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact. (William Safire Quotes)
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman’s virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. (William Safire Quotes)
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it’s like a Supreme Court appointment - they’re stuck with you for a long time. (William Safire Quotes)
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. (William Safire Quotes)