To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.
I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.