Speech Quotes · Page 82

In a strange way, Hillary Clinton was helped and victimized by Barack and Michelle Obama.Michelle Obama was probably better than Barack Obama,…

— Mark Shields

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the…

— Winston Churchill

“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the…

— Don DeLillo

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

— Zhuangzi

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And…

— Jarvis Cocker

I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.

— Katie Porter

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and…

— Philip Roth

Tears of eyes are valuable, speech of lips are powerful, heart with love is beautiful, life with friends is most wonderful.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider…

— Davy Crockett

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses…

— Hamza Yusuf

President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary…

— Tina Fey

The two reasons that Bernie Sanders gave her fits was the Iraq War and her association with Wall Street. Wall Street owns…

— Rush Limbaugh

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a…

— Junot Diaz

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

— Greg Abbott

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

— Ruth Beebe Hill

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

— Larry the Cable Guy

Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

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

I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But…

— Isla Fisher

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…

— Russell Jacoby

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

— William Randolph Hearst

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

— Joe Biden

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body,…

— Nhat Hanh

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As…

— Stewart Dalzell

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary…

— Kevin Sessums

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

— Laurence J. Peter

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to…

— Geoffrey Rush

Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning…

— Scott D. Anthony

I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about…

— Jonathan Ive

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I realised that you could get into trouble with a dull speech.

— Dennis Skinner

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech…

— Anonymous

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've had my speech impediment since... all my life.

— Curtis Blaydes

“Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play…

— Sarah Mally

“It’s quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your…

— Juli Zeh