“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.”
This quote is widely (mis)attributed to Richard Nixon, Alan Greenspan, or Robert McKloskey. I got a plaque as a gift in the 70s that had the quote, and it was attributed to Nixon there. I always thought it was a funny line, indicative of the sort of creative obfuscation that politicians always used. I always thought at the time that it was the worst of what a politician could ever be.
In the modern context, my astonishment at how horrifyingly wrong I was about that assertion is boundless. If all politicians did was send out verbal smokecreens like this, instead of the unbelievable distortions that pass for politicking now; imagine how much better off we'd be...
Sorry there's not a lot to this, but it's a pretty cut and dry topic, with a finite explanation... :) Until tomorrow!
This quote is widely (mis)attributed to Richard Nixon, Alan Greenspan, or Robert McKloskey. I got a plaque as a gift in the 70s that had the quote, and it was attributed to Nixon there. I always thought it was a funny line, indicative of the sort of creative obfuscation that politicians always used. I always thought at the time that it was the worst of what a politician could ever be.
In the modern context, my astonishment at how horrifyingly wrong I was about that assertion is boundless. If all politicians did was send out verbal smokecreens like this, instead of the unbelievable distortions that pass for politicking now; imagine how much better off we'd be...
Sorry there's not a lot to this, but it's a pretty cut and dry topic, with a finite explanation... :) Until tomorrow!
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