“When words come out of politician’s mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for “refudiate,” which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was “misunderestimate.””

Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

Weaponization of a candidate’s words against him or her is something we’re seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.

Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it’s like, ‘What, is he just making that up?’

Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn’t seem to follow a trajectory.

Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.

My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I dont like it is when Im off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.

When you got your hand in the lion’s mouth, don’t do nothin’ til you get it out.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I’m a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I’m slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.

Open your mind before your mouth.