Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.