Speeches Quotes

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

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.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

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

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

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

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.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

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

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

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.

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

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.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

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.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.