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
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
If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different. — Frankie Boyle 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 you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech. — Ana Kasparian 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
I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“As you listen to political speech, notice those occasions when politicians and other leaders use the passive voice to avoid responsibility for… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship. — Amul Thapar Copy Share Image
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“only after we have understood what means he had of saying anything can we understand what he meant to say, what he… — J.G.A. Pocock Copy Share Image
“Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as "name-calling", employing "glittering generalities", "plain folks" identifications, "card stacking", "bandwagon" devices, and… — Klaus Krippendorff 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
Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“Many people who have an interest in politics feel they should proclaim—loudly, and at any given time—what their views are and why… — Victoria Stoklasa Copy Share Image
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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