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Margaret Chase Smith: My basic rule...

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My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs, by Edward F. Murphy, 1981.
-- Margaret Chase Smith, (Dec 14 1897-1995), US politician; She was the first woman elected to both houses of Congress; first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party (Republican).


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