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“You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson”
“Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.”
“A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.”
“Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you’re looking at ma...”
“In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay”
“Frankie, I'm fully awake and more curious than George. If we hang up I'll lie here formulating a million reasons for your call, none of them your truth, and that would drive me crazy. You wouldn't ...”
“Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.”
“Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that i...”
“Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.”
“That one,” Ferox said, pointing at Johann with a claw. “I can see he’s communicated like that before and I think I can speak to his mind. Let me see.”“After a moment, Johann broke from the line and...”
“Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.”
“Oh.” It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning — none of which merely meant oh.”
“I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.”
“You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber”
“There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing.”
“Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - ...”
“A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.”
“I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.”
“I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.”
“The communication block between men and”
