Speech Interruption Quotes

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

For me an hour-long speech is not a filibuster. It is a brief observation.

I have eight times online since January [2016] in which Hillary Clinton has had massive coughing fits in which she couldn't complete her speech. I've seen her lifted onto airplanes. And I don't know what's wrong with her.

This is a pity, for I had many other things of great interest to say. But, as my time has expired, and not wishing to further interrupt the proceedings, I would at least like to have permission to print some remarks in the [Congressional] Record and insert "laughter and applause" in appropriate places. Now I will retire to the cloak-room to receive congratulations.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.