Quotes About Politics

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.

When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

I majored in political science and speech communication.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

Biden's first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.

The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

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

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.