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Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.  1988.
 
 
NUMBER:856
AUTHOR:Edward R Murrow
QUOTATION:The politician is … trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
ATTRIBUTION:October 19, 1959, address at London Guildhall, quoted by A M Sperber Murrow Freundlich 86
SUBJECTS:The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
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