民主政治源遠流長，經營百年才能略具格局。世界透亮，政治舞台照明甚強，台上出醜，翻身不易。西方政客訓練有年，代代相傳，深諳個中三昧，隨時喜怒哀樂，七情應聲上臉，眾生顛倒。中國大陸和台灣演技好的政要不多﹔香港政界人物八九行徑稚嫩，辯才平平，演技生硬，遑論閃耀智慧的火花﹑迸發幽默的甘泉！此所以前些日子有張﹑楊其人，揭底其事。
政治才能與語言修養息息相關。Earl Long說：Don''t write anything you phone, don''t phone anything you talk face to face, don''t talk anything you smile, don''t smile anything you wink and don''t wink anything you od.（能夠在電話里談的事情千萬不要寫在白紙上﹔當面能談的事情千萬不要在電話里說﹔輕輕一笑能帶過去的就千萬別嘮叨﹔眨眨眼睛示意一下既然行了，那就不要微笑﹔點頭可以了事的則不必使眼色）。語言誠可貴，無言是上策。羅斯福曰：Never, never, you must never remind a man at work on a political job that he may be president. It almost always kills him politically. He loses his nerve; he ''t do his work; he gives up the very traits that are making him a possibility.（萬萬不可提醒政界任事的人說他會當總統，一說則仕途幾必盡毀。他會變得膽怯，辦不了事﹔連一些可能使他當選的脾性特點都不見了）。