Bully Pulpit Quotes

#1. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

#2. I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Jeb Bush

#3. When Chris was ten, we pushed him down the stairs. This was twice as entertaining.

Brigid Kemmerer

#4. The White House is a bully pulpit.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

#6. Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

Maxine Waters

#8. Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Wagner

#9. You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

Meg Whitman

#10. It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

William Weld

#11. What I like most about change is that it's synonym for 'hope'. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

Linda Ellerbee

#12. I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Emma Donoghue

#13. Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

T.A. Uner

#14. The baroness swept into the room like an avenging black angel, her cape streaming out behind her. If looks could kill, we'd have been sprawled on the carpet.

Rhys Bowen

#15. . . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.

Bruce Marshall

#16. It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

Josh Fox

#17. Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

#19. I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Max Baucus

#20. When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

Pauly Shore

#21. 'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#22. I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#23. Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Jonathan Edwards

#24. But here's the bottom line, the president of the United States, he controls the bully pulpit, he can talk about anything he wants to talk about.

Timothy Griffin