Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“When we were leaving London, Dad spent about an hour trying to push his wardrobe through the bedroom door. He turned it… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life… — Taylor Spreitler Copy Share Image
As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age,… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level,… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Joe Biden will speak to the nation's largest gay rights group during a human rights convention on Friday. Then on Saturday, he… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“As they entered, Lemuel Sixpack was in the middle of his trademark long- winded oration. His last name was really Sixpack and,… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
There is no circumstance I can think of, where a president - or any elected official - should equate the hate speech… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him,… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image