Cliches and Soundbites

If you are a true believer there are always pat phrases you can use and just drop into a conversation. I was in a meeting today with a bunch of thoughtful and interesting people. Unfortunately, one of the women in the group, trying hard I guess to be part of the conversation, would drop in some phrase right out of the political text-book she apparently read. Sometimes the phrases actually fit into the conversation, but two or three times I found myself saying, "huh?"