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I welcome new words, or old wo...

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

William Safire 90 quotes

I'm willing to zap conservativ...

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William Safire 90 quotes

Last, but not least, avoid cli...

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

William Safire 90 quotes

Why use a modifier to set stra...

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

William Safire 90 quotes

Of higher value than any one l...

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

William Safire 90 quotes

Nobody stands taller than thos...

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William Safire 90 quotes

Only in grammar can you be mor...

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

William Safire 90 quotes

A reader ought to be able to h...

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William Safire 90 quotes

The right to do something does...

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

William Safire 90 quotes

After eating, an epicure gives...

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

William Safire 90 quotes

In dealing with Syria's dictat...

In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

William Safire 90 quotes

I was standing next to a famed...

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: 'An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow.' No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

William Safire 90 quotes

Different regions may require ...

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

William Safire 90 quotes

It behooves us to avoid archai...

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

William Safire 90 quotes

As long as one American is hun...

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

William Safire 90 quotes

Dangling punch lines to forgot...

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

William Safire 90 quotes

What a joy it is to see really...

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

William Safire 90 quotes

A reader should be able to ide...

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

William Safire 90 quotes

The perfect Christmas gift for...

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichГ©s know, is a scoreless tie.

William Safire 90 quotes

I want my questions answered b...

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

William Safire 90 quotes

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