Marc Garneau Quotes

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

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

I'm not very articulate.

... They depended far more on their physical power of oratory than upon any semblance of argument ... with small regard for modesty, truth or time.

Mr. James Madison is a character who has long been in public life; and what is very remarkable every Person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician, with the Scholar. In the management of every great question he evidently took the lead in the Convention, and tho' he cannot be called an Orator, he is a most agreeable, eloquent, and convincing Speaker. From a spirit of industry and application which he possesses in a most eminent degree, he always comes forward the best informed Man of any point in debate. The affairs of the United States, he perhaps, has the most correct knowledge of, of any Man in the Union.

This fellow has a silver tongue

Unlike the current occupant of the White House [George W. Bush], he has no difficulty in orally extemporizing a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

Sometimes, I think to myself, 'Damn, I don't speak as well as I used to.'

Jon and I have a lot of drive. But really, the most glaring difference is I'm better looking.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

I don't like to compare players, particularly to myself.

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.