Speech Quotes

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

I thought he [Tim Kaine] was terrible. I thought his speech was terrible.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.