David Horowitz Quotes

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

If your opponent can make a charge in 10 words and you need 30 or more words to answer, you are going to lose that argument.

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

The bully pulpit is not an open microphone. You have to target it very carefully.

A campaign appearance is judged much like that of an actor. Is the performance persuasive? Not what is said, and I find that too bad.

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.

There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.