sound bite

noun3

1. •
   A one-liner deliberately produced for this purpose; a statement specifically intended to be punchy and memorable.

   • President Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton’s talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus. — 2009
2. •
   An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
3. •
   Synonym of sound clip.