Unprepared Speech Quotes

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

I still find to give an interview to be difficult, as any person who deals with the press will tell you. That's why it's nice, with this one, to talk to a friend. But sometimes with a coffee and a friendly smile, I suddenly start talking without thinking about how it's going to be read.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood.