“There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.”
(President Ronald Reagan In his farewell address in 1988)

"So many words, so little said."

Keith Richards.

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"I am a PR disaster because I talk too much"

Benedict Cumberbatch

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” Johannes Kepler

"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
George Orwell

“Nobody can drive you crazy unless you give them the keys.” (Author Unknown)

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"

Anon - generally attributed to Dr 'Bones' McCoy

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure
you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” ~Robert McCloskey

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?” ~Satchel Paige

"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack." Field Communiqué to Headquarters,
Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)

Optimism: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white - Ambrose Bierce