Doe Quote by Jonathan Raban

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no…

— Mark Crispin Miller

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

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

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

— Jaroslav Seifert

Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

— Jonathan Karl

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

— Jaroslav Seifert

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or…

— Errol Morris

There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.

— Todd Young

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway