I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that…

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

— Mitch McConnell

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

— Alfred E Neuman

The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So,…

— Alex Kozinski

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before,…

— Susan Jacoby

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging,…

— George Orwell

“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make…

— Ida B. Wells

I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been…

— Rand Paul

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

— Hilaire Belloc

“But as the weeks rolled on, I realized it wasn’t a lack of glamour that was bothering me. Instead, I kept thinking back to…

— David Litt

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are…

— Zadie Smith

Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in…

— Simon Hoggart

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech.…

— Hillary Clinton