Back Quote by Robert Dallek

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I…

— Calvin Coolidge

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk…

— P. J. O'Rourke

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

— Gerald R. Ford

When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.

— Dana Perino

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three…

— Gordon S. Wood

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

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he…

— Evan Osnos

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

— Kin Hubbard

“That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader…

— William R. Forstchen

I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John…

— Chuck Todd