Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

A great speech is literature.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

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

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

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

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

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.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve got the right side of the argument, it just matters whether you have the right ear.

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.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

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.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.