Bristol Palin Quotes

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

A great speech is literature.

word thrower … phrase maker

Part of politics is redundancy. You just have to repeat things sometimes because not everyone has heard your message.

In order to make a good speech you must have something to say and you have to believe it.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

A candidate has to reach people's heads and reach their hearts.

The curse of speech writing is being part of a team.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

I campaign all the time.

Words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.