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"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
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"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."

"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"

"If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society."

"Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?"

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains."

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."

"Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force."

"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
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"The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion."

"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."

"I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history."

"There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that."

"Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you."

"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth."

"There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty."

"The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it."
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