Always believe Quote by David Frum

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed…

— David Frum

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in…

— George Tenet

With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and…

— David Brooks

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

— David Brooks

In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end up cementing…

— Ben Rhodes

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a…

— Dan Quayle

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words…

— Howard Jacobson

“The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. It would be exceedingly easy to set the…

— Calvin Coolidge

“The President was trapped – and with nearly every president, it had come about from his own words. Presidential promises and statements… The people…

— Tom Clancy

“The President is a phrase-maker par excellence. He admires trite sayings and revels in formulating them. But when he comes to their practical application…

— Thomas Sowell

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

— Robert Teeter