Scott McClellan Quotes

I just talk, and I guess some of my views came out.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

Now, you've seen that each one of us have a couple of soapboxes that we like to mount. And after about five minutes of our opinion, then we ask you a question.

Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him.

I shall tell you about things that are of interest to me and I hope you will be interested also. Please write and tell me of things in which you would be interested.

The very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

We all have the right to comment about each other.