Always 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

“This is the most common misconception about speechwriting. It came up especially often in the years before I started at the White House, when…

— David Litt

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

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

— Agatha Christie

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

— Daniel Webster

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers are thinking,…

— Ben Rhodes

“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective…

— Keith Willhite

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

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

— David Frum

The job of a presidential speechwriter isn't easy.

— Jessica Tarlov