Dan Quayle Quotes

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

I majored in political science and speech communication.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.