lexicon quotes

   If the Russian word 'perestroika' has easily entered the international lexicon, it isduetomorethanjust interest in what isgoing on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.

- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
  Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama†ridicule and reproach†pleading and persuasion.

-William Safire
  Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.