Quotes About Speeches

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

What you mean by freedom of speech? Democracy doesn't mean you abuse your country. Sedition has a law in the constitution. You can't give speeches against your country.

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

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.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

I consider myself a private person most of the time so it's hard to perform in a very public situation and have to do... public appearances and speeches depending on what it is and what the situation is.

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

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.

I had the Secret Service actually patrolling my block at some point. I didn't sign up for that. I went to work to write speeches for Barack Obama!

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.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

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

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.