Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

— Tina Brown

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

— Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

— Tina Brown

Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.

— Tina Brown

If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.

— Tina Brown

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

— Tina Brown

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

— Tina Brown

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

— Tina Brown

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

— Tina Brown

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

— Tina Brown