Speechwriter Quotes

#1. If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.

Aesop Rock

#2. I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

David Frum

#3. You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Joss Whedon

#4. The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.

Chris Matthews

#5. I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

Barack Obama

#6. Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.

George H. W. Bush

#7. I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

John Waters

#8. For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

Naomi Wolf

#9. It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Susan Isaacs

#10. I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

Rob Lowe

#11. I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'

Christopher Buckley

#12. MISSION ONE ACCOMPLISHED. The next challenge was bringing in online gamers to join him on his crusade. How was he going to convince online gamers to leave the privacy of their virtual world to work with others in the real world?
Harry Doubt

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#13. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

#14. Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

Rajneesh

#15. Extraordinary versions of people only exist when engagement is present.

Kevin E. Phillips

#16. I am poppies in the field
Red and cold
I am sleeping alone
and
I am light
I am light
I am light

Bella Betina

#17. Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

Sri Chinmoy

#18. Sunshine, I'm going to kiss you. I can't stop. I know it will change everything. But I can't not kiss you. Not for one more minute.

Amie Knight

#19. It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

Martin Jacques

#20. What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#21. I, on my part, was as naive as only a pervert can be.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

Jack Bowman

#23. Such a kiss--it was a flower held against the face, never to be described, scarcely to be remembered; as though her beauty were giving off emanations of itself which settled transiently and already dissolving upon his heart.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. * Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

#25. Eat, breathe, meditate and love and you're all set

Deepak Chopra