Daniel D. Rostenkowski Quotes

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas. The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas.

Words matter in foreign policy—even empty words.

Ronald Reagan thundered against Soviet perfidy for the television cameras … the substantive measures he took against the Soviets were remarkably modest.

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.

With Hillary Clinton, it's all talk and no action.

Great talkers, little doers.

I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.