Quotes About Speeches

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.

I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'