Quotes About Speech

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

"No comment" is a comment.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

You can't have it both ways. Either I'm Irish and can talk, or I'm a man and I can't.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.