bully pulpit

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bully pulpit
    n 1: 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; "the American presidency is a bully
         pulpit"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bully pulpit \bul"ly pul"pit\, n.
   An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol
   one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the
   United States, which was described thus by President Theodore
   Rossevelt.
   [PJC]

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