Speaking Carefully Quotes

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.

We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.

Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

I realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I must be exceedingly careful, prudent, as to what I say, and even more careful and prudent as to how I say it. I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think.