The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
“Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.”
“For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.”