William Safire Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

• I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

  William Safire

  Hands, Want, Smoothies

  "Essay; Pleasure Of My Company" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 1984.

• President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

  William Safire

  Empathy, President, Politician

  1990 LanguageMaven Strikes Again.

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