Speech Quotes - Page 37

• The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

  Michael Kinsley

  Silence, Corporations, Persons

  "Michael Kinsley: The solution to money in politics" by Michael Kinsley, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.

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• In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

  Steve Cosson

  Personality, Fascination, Diction

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Husband, Winning

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• It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

  Wilfred Bion

  Lying, Purpose, Forgotten

  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Water, Geek, Rebellion

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• One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.

  Ernest Lehman

  Believe, Character, Listening

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• If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Coward, Hacks, Ifs

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• The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

  Mark Twain

  Counterfeit

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

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• I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

  Medea Benjamin

  Fighting, Thinking, Rights

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• When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

  Remi Kanazi

  Honesty, America, Europe

  "What Would Jesus Do?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. February 4, 2006.

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• The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

  Emo Philips

  Children, Night, President

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• Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

  Robert Spencer

  Freedom Of Speech, Annoying, Ridicule

  Robert Spencer (2006). “The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Ends, Concessions

  "This Is The Worst". Interview with Chris Matthews, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2007.

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• Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Freedom Of Speech, Misunderstood

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• Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Children, School

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• Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Writing, Blood, Years

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.109, VM eBooks

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• In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Jobs, Loss, President

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• It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Rip, Writing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.309, Whitaker House

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• Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

  Michael Barone

  Jobs, Police, Intellectual

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• Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Years, Leader

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Heart, School

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

  Herbert Spencer

  Echoes, Soul, Hardship

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

  John Stossel

  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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