Anonymous Quotes

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

Protect yourself by always having a record of what transpired or was said in any situation that might be considered sensitive.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Make no contracts that will bind me.

It is imperative to build a contingent of public servants who are politically reliable, professionally competent, and clean and honest, and have a good work style.

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

Historians are responsible not only for the words they write but for the words they don’t write.

If everyone in government would refuse to sign everything they couldn't read, everything would grind to a screeching halt.

I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

You can duck responsibility within your committee; you can blame somebody else's committee, you can disappear behind the facade of your party allegiance ..., or you can blame it on the other House; and if none of those happens to ... work, you can dump it on the shoulders of bureaucracy and red tape ...

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

Words do not convince me; I must have deeds.

Things written, remain.