Tina Brown Quotes

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

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 words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He's humble.

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

It is much better when a member resumes his seat after he has made a speech for the House to have the feeling that they wish he had gone on longer instead of wondering why he did not stop sooner.

I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.

I admire Obama.

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.

Barack Obama's journey to the White House has impressed and inspired the entire world.

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.