Political Speeches Quotes:

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

topic: Political, Speech, Political Speeches

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

topic: Time, Writing, Political Language, Speech And Writing, Political Speeches

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

- James L. Buckley

topic: Self, Media, Political, Political Speeches

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

- Ann Coulter

topic: New York, Gun, Political, Ouija Board, Political Speeches

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Believe, Political, Freedom Of Speech, Political Speeches, Political Campaign

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

- Ida B. Wells

source: Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.244, University of Chicago Press

topic: Country, Baby, Believe, Political Speeches

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

- George Orwell

topic: Lying, Writing, Political, Vagueness, Speech And Writing

The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

- Alex Kozinski

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Views, People, Office, Political Speeches, Concealing

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

- Mike Royko

topic: Strong, Powerful, Impact, Social Impact, Political Speeches

To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.

- Frantz Fanon

source: Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

topic: Mean, Responsibility, Men, Political Speeches

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Government, Political, Speech, Political Speeches

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

topic: Lying, Men, Years, Political Speeches

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Bernie Sanders on politics, Clinton and guns". Interview with Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

topic: Political, Flags, Speech, Political Speeches

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Art, Political, Sound, Political Speeches

I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

- Rand Paul

source: "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

topic: Religious, Islamic, Government, Political Speeches

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.

- Stuart Chase

source: Stuart Chase (2015). “Tyranny of Words”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Philosophy, Political, Speech, Grounding, Economic Theory

For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

- Elizabeth George

topic: Mean, Modern Novel, Skills, Political Speeches, Crafters

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: War, Grandchildren, Merchandising, Political Speeches

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

- Bob Geldof

topic: Stars, Lying, Rocks, Political Speeches

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

- George D. Prentice

topic: Father, Political, Speech, Political Speeches

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

- Mitch McConnell

topic: Issues, Political, Speech, Political Speeches

One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

- David Lloyd George

topic: Waiting, Political, Gentleman, Political Speeches, Hecklers

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

- Joe Biden

topic: Years, Political, Speech, Matter Of Fact, Political Speeches

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

- Mark Victor Hansen

topic: Winning, Political, Competition, Political Speeches, Taglines

Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

- Simon Hoggart

topic: Optimistic, Mean, White, Political Speeches

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

- Michael Eric Dyson

topic: Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta, Transgression, Political Speeches

Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

topic: Country, Impact, Political, Political Speeches

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before, but it was not that common. And of course since it was a song that wasn't written by Irving Berlin until the 20th century (laughter), none of the 19th century presidents said God Bless America at the end of speeches, either. I think that the symbolism which suggests that everybody is religious and that even presidents who believe in church and state feel obliged to do this.

- Susan Jacoby

source: "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

topic: Song, Religious, Laughter, Political Speeches, God Bless America

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

- Joe Biden

topic: Years, Issues, Political, Political Speeches

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

- Zadie Smith

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Simple, Tv Shows, Political, Staging, Political Speeches