The Bully Pulpit Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

William Weld

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. 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

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

Jeb Bush

#10. If you don't have an ego, you're a wino.

Conrad Dobler

#11. I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

Patrick Ness

#13. Good-humor only teaches charms to last,
Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Alexander Pope

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Kaley Cuoco

#16. Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence.

Charles Lamb

#17. I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

Flula Borg

#18. The White House is a bully pulpit.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. 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