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Top 70 William Safire Quotes (2025 Update)
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William Safire Quote: “Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.”

51. “Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go ’round. It’s not love, it’s that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.”

52. “The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go ’round. It’s not love, it’s that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman’s virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.”

53. “Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman’s virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “This is what it’s all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.”

54. “This is what it’s all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Never feel guilty about reading, it’s what you do to do your job.”

55. “Never feel guilty about reading, it’s what you do to do your job.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Never put the story in the lead. Let ’em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.”

56. “Never put the story in the lead. Let ’em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “I’m a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.”

57. “I’m a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.”

58. “President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.”

59. “A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.”

60. “One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted – not my hand held by an old smoothie.”

61. “I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted – not my hand held by an old smoothie.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.”

62. “If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Our rogue President, after selling face time...”

63. “Our rogue President, after selling face time...”

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William Safire Quote: “The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you’re breaking.”

64. “The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you’re breaking.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.”

65. “The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Create your own constituency of the infuriated.”

66. “Create your own constituency of the infuriated.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today’s audience.”

67. “One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today’s audience.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind’s manageable companion.”

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

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Do not be taken in by ‘insiderisms.’ Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as ‘lede.’ Where they lede, do not follow.”

69. “Do not be taken in by ‘insiderisms.’ Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as ‘lede.’ Where they lede, do not follow.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Have a definite opinion.”

70. “Have a definite opinion.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.”

71. “When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It’s either collective security or selective security.”

72. “Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It’s either collective security or selective security.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.”

73. “Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.”

74. “The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “I’m willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.”

75. “I’m willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.”

— William Safire

William Safire Quote: “Chandler’s “She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window.”

76. “Chandler’s “She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window.”

— William Safire

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