Sometimes, the best thing for a political leader to say is nothing. "Silence is argument carried out by other means" said Cuban guerilla Che Guevara. "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute," said humorist Josh Billings. "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut," said House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Rayburn's fellow Texan, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said, "You've got to know when to keep your mouth shut. The Senate's the cruelest judge in the world. A man's a fool to talk to other fellows about any subject unless he knows more about that subject than they do."
