Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

He could talk a dog off a meat wagon. He talked a lot but said nothing.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses remedies.

Orrin Hatch has a five pound tongue in a four pound head.

The man [President Woodrow Wilson] has no sense of things that penetrates below the surface. With him the rhetoric of a thing is the thing itself.

He can't run nothing but his mouth.

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

He’s one of the few men in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

The CIA has become a hollow shell of words without deeds