If the speaker doesn’t know what her or his topic is and cannot convey that topic to the audience, then we’ve got really big problems! Robert Cavett, the founder of the National Speaker’s Association, used the analogy of a preacher giving a sermon when he noted
"Ang pambansang awit ay naglalaman at nagpapahayag ng mga mithiin, pangarap, mithiin, pananabik, pangako at determinasyon, nasyonalismo at pagkamakabayan, damdamin at diwa ng mga tao," aniya.