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Friday, April 16, 2010

circuitous sentences





The movie Goodfellas offers a great lesson on how to send forth a torrent of words without saying anything. Some politicians obviously have been watching attentively:

"He is one of the very few people who can sit in on anything he wants to sit in on" (Anita Dunn about Robert Gibbs).

"If all you do is get focused on what this does to this, and what this does to this, you will be so paralyzed that you will never make a decision. It's not easy. If you take the long view, you have to take it" (Robert Gibbs).

"To be a competitor, it will have to be able to compete" (Nancy Pelosi on the public option).

"I think if you were to look forward a year, I expect I will be where I am" (David Axelrod).

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