Ann Brown Quotes

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

If you want to lead, you’ve got to have followers. You’ve got to align people, and you do that through television.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit.

Whenever I have a message to get out I seem to find a way to get my message out.

When you're the person in the room with the microphone, you have a platform to talk about whatever you want, and it's much more interesting if we're discussing something that feels relevant.

You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.

The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.

I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

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.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

If you have any platform and a voice, I think it's important to use it.

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

Donald Trump is able to get his message out.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.