Speakers Quotes - Page 10

• I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

  Mark Shields

  Successful, Thinking, Speech

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Art, Children, Bird

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

  Heinrich Heine

  Archer, Arrows, Lips

  "Religion and Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Heine, 1852.

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• If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Class, Voice

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Might, Curse, Turns

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• The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

  John Searle

  Mean, Speech, Problem

  "Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts". Book by John Searle, 1979.

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• As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Order, Understanding, Events

  "The Theory of Communicative Action". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1987.

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• The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Expression

  "Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy". Book by Werner Ulrich, 1983.

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• Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

  Stephen Harper

  Police, Wonderful, Members

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• Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.

  Jack Jason

  Thinking, Phones, Interesting Situations

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Donald Trump is now said that he wants to have a plan that's more harmonized with what House Republicans under speaker Paul Ryan have proposed.

  Avik Roy

  House, Want, Republican

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

  William J. Brennan

  Judging, Freedom Of Speech, Guarantees

  "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan". 1964.

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• People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

  James Taylor

  People, Listening, Quality

  "James Taylor: Streaming businesses should pay artists half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

  Ronald Knox

  Attitude, Numbers, Heavy

  "Let Dons Delight". Book by Ronald Knox. Note on Chapter 8, 1939.

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• Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

  Preston Manning

  Matter, Suspicion, Policy

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

  Aristotle

  Character, May, Sovereign

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Believe, Sacred, Usability

  Theodor Adorno (2013). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.19, Routledge

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• In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.

  John Searle

  Mean, Expression, Utterance

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Responsibility, Essentials, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she willing to be funny, is she willing to be both authoritative, but also real? And so less what she says than the emotional tone she sets. It takes a lot of confidence to be a vulnerable speaker on this stage. And sometimes she hasn't always projected the confidence it takes to be in some ways weak. But that's what I think people were looking for, that moment of human connection.

  David Brooks

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

  Marco Rubio

  Florida, Majority Leader, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

  "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

  Gene Weingarten

  House, Constitution, Supreme Court

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  Ted Rall

  Confused, Thinking, Fans

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• Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

  Nick Rahall

  Half, Bills, Facts

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