Mitt Romney Quotes

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

If you cannot say what you have to say in 20 minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.

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

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.

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

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.