He expressed himself clearly.

Have I made myself clear?

Am I clear?

Tom was vague.

I thought I made that clear.

I think I've made myself clear.

You were very clear.

Perhaps I haven't made myself clear.

Okay? Somebody invented it.

As Ndey Sarr Nyancho put it

I must have expressed myself badly.

As he put it We are not secure people.

I guess I haven't made myself clear.

I think I didn't said it clearly enough.

And, in his own words, he looked like a freak.

I doubt a native speaker would say it that way.

I doubt whether a native speaker would say it like that.

I doubt whether a native speaker would express himself this way.

Pope Francis recently put it just right Safeguard Creation, he said.

That is how he puts it on his homepage

As one university president put it Everyone asks, What s your vision?

As Arisotle put it, politics is the master science in the realm of action.

As one put it, the world is not flat, but spiky.

A look of fear appeared on his face but he immediately recovered himself.

Security of property and tolerable administration of justice, as Smith put it.

As Walter Bagehot once famously said, Money will not manage itself.

As one put it, the world is not flat, but spiky.

It s no use throwing dollars out of a helicopter, as Brazilian Minister of Finance Guido Mantega put it.

Machiavelli famously said that it is more important for a prince to be feared than to be loved.

As he put it, the US was built for a purpose to serve eternal and universal principles.

As its leader, Hassan Nasrallah aptly put it, We are just a reaction to chronic injustice.

A prominent Chinese businessman who divides his time between Hong Kong and London was even more specific.

Facebook user Sol DjVaselli Duverne put it even more simply, captioning his post with a simple PAY UP.

But Shultz s Stanford colleague, Condoleezza Rice, wanted a more transformational diplomacy that did not accept the world as it was, but tried to change it.

As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has put it, The issues should determine the coalition, rather than the coalition determining the issues.

As one observer put it, Rice s ambition is not just to be a gardener she wants to be a landscape architect.

As President Klaus put it, the Czech Republic could dissolve in the EU like a sugar cube in a cup of coffee.

As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has put it, climate change is a big problem with small solutions.

When one looks closely, most of these tables are, as Henry Kissinger famously put it, content free.

Wilson's colleague, Eric Ponder, was even more pointed, saying that what is required is more measurement and less theory.

With that change, the banker s traditional imperative to maintain fidelity and trust to keep faith, as Higginson put it was forgotten.

The nuclear crisis should be resolved through negotiations, before, in US President Barack Obama s phrase, the window closes.

Money there is an abstraction the abstraction of abstractions, as Hegel put it which helps explain why salaries are no longer rooted in reality.

It is American leaders suicidal statecraft, to use Arnold Toynbee s pithy phrase for what he considered the ultimate cause of imperial collapse, that is to blame for America s plight.

As US foreign policy doyen Zbigniew Brzezinski put it in an interview with a German radio station, The majority of Azeris actually support President Ilham Aliyev.