If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.