The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.
Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.
In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.
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