Also Quote by Mark McKinnon

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to…

— Susan Estrich

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

— Peggy Noonan

“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

A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare…

— Jon Lovett

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

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him,…

— James A. Garfield

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and…

— Wangari Maathai

I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one…

— Barack Obama

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his speeches garbled

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Alfred E Neuman