Political Speech Quotes

Remember those great speeches MacArthur made from the Philippines? I wrote all those.

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space of Democracy had been selected as one of the "common readers" for the university's 1,050 entering freshmen. On October 6, William Merwin, the president of Florida Gulf Coast, made the decision to "postpone" the convocation. He cited negative statements I had made in print about President Bush. If our colleges and universities are no longer the champions and protectors of free speech, then no voice in this country is safe.

This Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

The description was elaborate, the Senator himself suggesting some of the nicer touches, and every line of it was written and on its way to New York before Mr. Seward had uttered a word in the Senate Chamber.

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.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

You owe it to the community not to be swerved by eloquence and specious argument.

Freedom of political speech will never justify violence.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

Everywhere the "principe de la Monarchie" is called upon to show itself strong. That is why I am so glad at the capital speech you made other day to the deputations in response to some addresses for reform. It was very much to the point and made a deep impression everywhere

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

The First Law of Politics: Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.

Politics is the language through which a free society expresses itself

The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.