In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
If you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. — Alfred E Neuman Copy Share Image
It's a rare political speech that, two years after it is delivered, can still be quoted verbatim around the world. — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech. — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“I’m tired, and I just want to take a nap. But I want some good sleep, so does anybody know where I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain.… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
“I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from… — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
“Repeatedly courts turned to the First Amendment. The right to speak is fundamental, but is limited or regulated under myriad circumstances. You… — Michael Waldman Copy Share Image
“The president and his subordinates have willfully undermined and prejudiced the rights of the American people to equal protection under the law… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George.… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It's hard to believe how sick of war we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But as the weeks rolled on, I realized it wasn’t a lack of glamour that was bothering me. Instead, I kept thinking… — David Litt Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Such indirection and ambivalence typify the politics of Wong's work. He's not in any conventional sense an ideological filmmaker. "It's never been… — Wong Kar Wai, John Powers Copy Share Image
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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