William Safire Mind Quotations

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.