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William Safire Quotes
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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)
In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush’s order calls this Soviet-style abomination ‘a full and fair trial. (William Safire Quotes)
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. (William Safire Quotes)
[Senators John Kerry and John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy. (William Safire Quotes)
What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation (William Safire Quotes)
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning (William Safire Quotes)
I’m willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian (William Safire Quotes)
Of higher value than any one leader is the cause (William Safire Quotes)
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect (William Safire Quotes)
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet (William Safire Quotes)
Don’t expect others to do your work for you (William Safire Quotes)
Create your own constituency of the infuriated (William Safire Quotes)
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know (William Safire Quotes)
Never assume the obvious is true (William Safire Quotes)
When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue (William Safire Quotes)
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague (William Safire Quotes)
I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know (William Safire Quotes)
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right (William Safire Quotes)
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected (William Safire Quotes)
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs (William Safire Quotes)
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight (William Safire Quotes)
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached (William Safire Quotes)
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care (William Safire Quotes)
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary (William Safire Quotes)
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day (William Safire Quotes)
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness (William Safire Quotes)
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don’t start a sentence with a conjugation (William Safire Quotes)
Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started (William Safire Quotes)
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do (William Safire Quotes)
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media (William Safire Quotes)