Sam Gyimah Quotes

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

I wasn't a great debater.

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

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

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.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

I am a very persuasive man.

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.

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

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.