Speeches Are More Important In

I Guess The Second-term Team Is Not Quite As Adoring As The First.

Great Speeches Have Always Had Great Soundbites. The Problem Now Is That The Young Technicians Who Put Together Speeches Are Paying Attention Only To The Soundbite, Not To The Text As A Whole, Not Realizing That All Great Soundbites Happen By Accident, Which Is To Say, All Great Soundbites Are Yielded Up Inevitably, As Part Of The Natural Expression Of The Text. They Are Part Of The Tapestry, They Aren't A Little Flower Somebody Sewed On.

You Don't Have To Be Old In America To Say Of A World You Lived In: 'that World Is Gone.'

Part Of Courage Is Simple Consistency.

In A President, Character Is Everything. A President Doesn't Have To Be Brilliant... He Doesn't Have To Be Clever; You Can Hire Clever... You Can Hire Pragmatic, And You Can Buy And Bring In Policy Wonks. But You Cant Buy Courage And Decency, You Cant Rent A Strong Moral Sense. A President Must Bring Those Things With Him. He Needs To Have, In That Much Maligned Word, But A Good One Nonetheless, A Vision Of The Future He Wishes To Create.. But A Vision Is Worth Little If A President Doesn't Have The Character - The Courage And Heart - To See It Through.