Eleanor Clift Quotes

Your tongue runs before your wit.

I say things I shouldn't and I can't stop myself. It's called no filter.

My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

He is a third rate Western lawyer…they take a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar and whose speeches are illiterate compositions…interlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

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.

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

His [President John Adams'] language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

Mr. Sherman exhibits the oddest shaped character I ever remember to have met with. He is awkward, un-meaning, and unaccountably strange in his manner. But in his train of thinking there is something regular, deep, and comprehensive; yet the oddity of his address, the vulgarisms that accompany his public speaking, and that strange new England cant which runs through his public as well as his private speaking make everything that is connected with him grotesque and laughable; -and yet he deserves infinite praise,-no Man has a better Heart or a clearer Head.

word thrower … phrase maker

We have a new President who knows nothing about foreign affairs and a Vice President who thinks he knows everything about foreign affairs.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than illumination.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary

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

In a body [Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers ...you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate and frequently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion

A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

Some condemnations praise; some praise damns.

My mouth was faster than my brain. Sometimes it just comes out.

When I was a young boy I used to raise chickens and I was studying to be a preacher. I used to practice preaching to the chickens. Some of those chickens listened to me better than some of my colleagues now in the Congress.

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

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

I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.