Speeches published in Policy Options

I have very much been enjoying the publication of excerpts of speeches in Policy Options, the learned magazine of Institute for Research in Public Policy (IRPP). Three come to mind, being those given by President Obama, Senator Segal and Prime Minister Harper. I am quite aware that these likely involved speech writers, but nevertheless seeing the source material helps to understand where these speakers are coming from. President Obama´s speech in Egypt was brilliant, and reading it helped to understand why it would be considered as part of why he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Senator Segal was very articulate and insightful. A wonderful suggestion to the media as to how they can improve their reporting. Regretably the speech of Prime Minister Harper at Davos was intellectually light in my opinion. I like the concept of enlightened sovereignty that he espoused but the speech described action and labelled it. It was not persuasive as it did not philosophically build a case for this type of sovereign action and then say this is what its execution would include. I suspect that is the difference between a stateman and a politican.