bully pulpit

Noun

Meaning

a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter

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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. Max Baucus

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. William Weld

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. Jeb Bush

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. Jeff Goodell

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. Michael Eric Dyson

the American presidency is a bully pulpit Source: Internet

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