Quotes About Speech

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

A great speech is literature.

No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of them in college, I've gotten used to giving advice.

I got an invitation to speak in the European parliament and I met Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the U.N. I took those opportunities to talk about what I thought was right. That those people, who are more important and powerful than I am, think I'm relevant enough to give a speech is mind-blowing.

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

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

I am bipolar, and I am a full manifestation of it in terms of my speech, in terms of my energy.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.