Dr Manmohan Singh today announced that he will not seek a third term as India's Prime Minister after the 2014 general elections and wrote off the opposition's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as 'disastrous'. This comes at a time when the new entity on the block Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's speech in Delhi Assembly is trending as 'simple straightforward'. We discuss what separates substance from rhetoric in speeches, and what might the voters be paying heed to.