A Quote by Margaret Hoover

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight. — © Margaret Hoover
Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.
If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he uses the power of the presidency to back up some of those tweets and he's really, really coming down with a hammer on people he doesn't like using the power of the presidency, then we're seeing something very new and very different.
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.
The White House is a bully pulpit.
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
Every voice with a national bully pulpit that is willing to take on the lies of the anti-cop Left is still vitally important.
It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
I don't think someone should try to bully and insult their way to the presidency.
I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.
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.
I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.
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.
It's always great to fight in Brazil, especially northeast Brazil. There are a lot of tough people here. It's a tough part of the country, to fight here is amazing for me.
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