I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've…

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

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

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

— Alfred E Neuman

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

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton