Quotes About Speech

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

They talk most who have the least to say.

When my lips are dry, I can't smile, I can't talk - it's debilitating!

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.'

It was really beautiful. The mayors of Glovertown and Gambo introduced me, and then I talked to the crowd. In fifteen minutes, we raised more than $700 in a town with less than 3,000 people. It was a fantastic feeling and a day I will never forget because I hope it is a start of things to come.

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

I'm not really good at talking.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Talking is the disease of age.

Labeling it 'political' is not going to stop me from talking about it.

Talking to the press is not always good.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.

Thomas à Kempis writes, "It is easier to be silent altogether than to speak with moderation."4

As Richard Foster explains, "Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking, without a heart listening to God, is not silence."1

Watch, for example, how much of our speech is aimed at justifying our actions. We find it almost impossible to act and allow the act to speak for itself.