Quotes About Speech

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If my comic flavor shows there, I cannot be taken as a serious politician.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

Even if the CCP is willing to stick with 'one country, two systems' in principle, no one can say for certain whether Hong Kong's freedoms of speech and the press would survive in reality.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.