Quotes About Speeches

Señoras señores: Por lo común los discursos de sobremesa Son buenos pero largos El mío será malo pero corto Cosa Que no debiera sorprender a nadie.

In my temperance speeches, I have frequently been interrupted, and sometimes interrogated by opponents. I always take things coolly, let them have their say, and endeavor to give them a "Roland for an Oliver.

One annual report is worth 10 speeches by a Federal Reserve chairman.

Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.

I learned from my parents the ability to question, never to trust implicitly those in charge, not to believe the promises made in speeches and never to ignore the atrocious propaganda posters in public places … this kind of propaganda is designed to cause fear, and people who live in fear of a common enemy can be easily manipulated.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

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