Speeches Quotes

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

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

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.