130 Quotes by William Safire

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet....

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

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

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.