A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.