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• As a candidate for national elective office the most dangerous thing you can do is say something during the campaign that the people might remember.
  -- Eugene McCarthy...
• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
• To say the right thing at the right time, keep quiet most of the time.
• Right Thing: n. That which is *compellingly* the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc.
  Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized....
• Right Thing n. That which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc.
  Often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized....
• He is considered the most graceful speaker who can say nothing in most words.
• He is considered a most graceful speaker who can say nothing in the most words.
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  -- Will Durant, in "Reader's Digest", 1972...
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
  -- Will Dura...