There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
The whole art of a political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
