Quotes about Speeches

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

Even though [the Hartford speech] was one of his standard speeches, every time he gave it there were variations.

Clayborne Carson

Market players are expecting that Mizuno and Fukui may start preparing the markets gradually for an eventual increase in interest rates, and are listening carefully to their speeches.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Bullock

We are going to have a party - a toast to the road. We're having a birthday cake and punch, tours of the Old State Capitol building and speeches from various dignitaries whom we have invited, including the governor, if he can make it. And everyone is invited.

Mary Truitt

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Alfred E. Neuman

Some of the speeches were never heard and were only distributed in the newspapers. If the Liberal candidate was seen to be trying very hard, Tories would kidnap him and take him away, and the same for the Tories.

Donald Wintersgill

But the language in the Fed comments and in Greenspan's speeches of late has been pointing to rate hikes becoming more aggressive, ... The word 'measured' is going to be dropped soon, maybe at this meeting, maybe at the next.

Timothy Ghriskey

It's one thing to thank your mother, or someone who helped get your first job so you didn't have to sleep in your car. Hilary Swank gave one of the best speeches (for 1999's Boys Don't Cry) by staying personal. But who wants to hear a list of attorneys?

Tom O'neil

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

G. B. Trudeau

Boy, what a speech, ... He made one of those wonderful, wonderful speeches to his people.

Dick Riley

Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.

Lynn Swann

All the speeches were conducted with remarkable civility, and a lack of redundancy.

Tom Feeney

We will likely see many state politicians giving speeches in honor of Dr. King, but many refuse to say anything positive in regards to Lee or Jackson. Some would degrade the memory of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson because of modern race politics designed to divide people to give certain political factions an edge over their opposition.

Brandon Dorsey

Deke gave one of the best speeches I've ever heard from a teammate inside a locker room. It was pretty touching. He got the point across to everybody.

Nathan Bilyeu

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.

Robert Leighton

In speeches to groups across the state I have made the point that lawmakers have delivered a slap in the face to citizens who voted overwhelmingly in favor of eight-year term limits in 1992. Now lawmakers are running from their decision.

Max Linn

They are in big trouble. Bush's speeches, even as late as December, managed to shore up public opinion a little bit. But what you can do with speeches at this point is pretty limited. It's not even clear who's listening.

Christopher Gelpi

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

Dixie Carter

I hate acceptance speeches. They always make you cringe. This way, it's a challenge to be more creative.

Tiffany Shlain

The prime speakers each night are on from 10 to 11 p.m. Eastern time, which is designed to get the maximum TV audience. But that's late for newspapers. It means a lot of newspapers miss their early editions with the big speeches.

Susan Page

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.

John Andrew Holmes

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.

Pete Seeger

This particular series confuses me about what it is trying to accomplish. It's been a bad winter in Iraq, but I also don't think he has enough new to say, and it's too soon after the fall speeches.

Michael O'hanlon

[Some lawmakers who did not take part in the hearing agree.] It's all about making speeches and issuing talking points, ... No tax increase will get out of this Congress.

Jim Cooper

The Federal Open Market Committee does not appear from any of its official statements or from the speeches and testimony of its members, to be concerned about excessively strong labor markets or the prospect of wage inflation.

Tom Schlesinger

[Koechley has paid attention to many of the speeches, being particularly impressed with Barack Obama's .] A lot of the jokes that make The Onion challenge the frames of reference on issues, ... Obama articulated every issue perfectly. He took every tired line and made it fresh.

Peter Koechley

The prime minister came into office with many opportunities to show environmental leadership, but despite all of his passionate speeches ... when the chips are down he has often jumped the wrong way.

Andrew Lee

It's going to be very difficult for communities that feel that they have been on the receiving end of violence ... to see the very people they hold responsible standing up in parliament and giving speeches about the future of the country.

Paul Fishstein

We don't encourage it and the artists, in fact, have very little time at the podium to begin with for their acceptance speeches. But we don't edit for commentary, only for matters of indecency.

Chris Ender

Public outreach is often much riskier for women candidates. They encounter greater barriers than men if they choose to print their photographs on campaign posters, travel to conservative rural areas, or deliver public speeches. Unfortunately, the lack of security means that many women candidates may curtail their campaigning.

Nisha Varia

Britain let violent speeches go on too long, ... Laxity in this area isn't good for anybody.

Dalil Boubakeur

There have been no Vince Lombardi speeches, no gimmick stats. We haven't had to motivate them that way, they do it intrinsically, they want to dive on the floor.

Dan Judd

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.

Kurt Vonnegut

In the past, we had to provide more and longer trains for that key period of time. Now, any train going to the city can drop people off for the speeches.

Linton Johnson

It's choppy and direct; the speeches are less flowery. It really lends itself to the film noir style.

Jackie Labarro

The students have been practicing for their speeches since January. We opened the speech contest to any FFA student who wanted to participate. Last year, only two finalists entered the contest.

Abby Flaherty

I don't think the formula for the press to recover its lost credibility is getting up on a soapbox and making speeches.

Robert Zelnick

The senator is not going to listen to the president paint a rosy picture on a disastrous situation. The senator believes, no matter how many speeches the president gives, that the policy on Iraq is broken.

Tom Gavin

It's an exciting time, but he's been focused on not only winning re-election but also on governing, ... Other than what he's laid out in his campaign speeches, he hasn't shared other more sweeping ideas he may have.

Edward Skyler