Alex Borstein Quotes

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

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.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

In oratory the will must predominate.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Having an education is invaluable.

A great speech is literature.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

I am not eloquent.

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