Communication Quote by Paula Poundstone

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it,…

— Walt Kelly

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended…

— Kate Clinton

King would certainly be overjoyed by Barack Obama's inauguration, but we must avoid, and indeed reject, any careless claims that Obama's swearing in marks…

— David Garrow

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

Look,” I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. “This isn’t a great time. I have my inauguration—”…

— Karen Chance

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

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

“stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our…

— Anonymous

Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his…

— Des Browne

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

— Ben Shapiro

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

— John Ridley

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two…

— Tina Brown