Agendas Quote by Gwen Ifill

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what…

— Mark McKinnon

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

— Peggy Noonan

John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was…

— Barack Obama

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

— Alfred E Neuman

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

State of the Union addresses are supposed to be a high mark of sorts for a president. The president has the nation's attention as…

— Harry Enten

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

— Peggy Noonan

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union…

— Jim Jordan

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

— David Harbour

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