Around Quote by Cathy Newman

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked…

— Richard M. Nixon

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points,…

— Seth Gordon

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

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

— Ana Kasparian

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you…

— Bernie Sanders

“Quote' is a verb; 'quotation', a noun. Lazy tongues attached to empty minds have taken the distinction from us. Before we lament, let us…

— D.F. Downing

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the…

— George Orwell

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

— Alfred E Neuman