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Have a definite opinion.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'
George Washington had a tough second term.
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
When duty calls, that is when character counts.
Create your own constituency of the infuriated.
English is a stretch language; one size fits all.
Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.
Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.
Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.
Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.