Quotes by Speechwriters

I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.

Liz Carpenter

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

James Humes

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

James Humes

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Liz Carpenter

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter

Actually being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.

James Humes

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Matthew Scully

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

Michael Gerson

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Matthew Scully