Speech Making Quotes

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

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

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Returned last night from Ohio Day at the Centennial. It was an enthusiastic and prodigious crowd which greeted me. I managed to shake some four thousand people by the hand and to make half a dozen speeches from steps, windows and roof of the Ohio Building, without saying anything I regret—without "slopping over.

As all Members of Parliament know, the ease and flow of making a speech outside the House is not at all the same as that required in the Chamber.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.