Tina Brown Quotes

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Regan’s greatness as a rhetorician was in his delivery not in the content of what he said as with Churchill and Roosevelt.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

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

Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

There is not alternative to speechwriters. You can’t run for president and write your own speeches.

A politician wants to come off as a happy warrior. To be contemplative seems almost effete, fancy – dispiriting somehow to much of your audience. He [Barack Obama] is not afraid to be this way at all.

Employing a low-key, Midwestern charisma, Mike Pence proved he knows how to win over an audience.

Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.

How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens - is a question I don't expect ever to be solved.

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.

I am a very persuasive man.

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

Bush is the Liberace of Cuban politics. He knows how to play us. He says every single thing they want to hear.

My dad was just so charismatic and witty. One day, I hope people say that I was just as good as my dad on the mic in my own way. I will never be saying 'Space Mountain' or 'limousine riding,' but I hope people say I can control an audience, that I was as captivating as him.