Inaugural Speech Quotes

#1. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.

George Washington

#2. Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

George W. Bush

#3. Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...

Kate Clinton

#4. You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces

Groucho Marx

#5. It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

David Hume

#6. Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

Jim Hodges

#7. I'm sorry I tried to burn you in the flames of Hell on your birthday." She actually looked repentant. "It's ok." I patted her small back. "I'm sorry I made all those birds poop on your head." Her eyes narrowed for a moment. Perhaps she hadn't known I was responsible for that.

Nicole Grane

#8. I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

Gwen Ifill

#9. The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

Marty Rubin

#10. If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.

Newt Gingrich

#11. Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause innocent bystanders to want to marry you.)

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

J. Ogden Armour

#13. She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

Saul Williams

#14. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]

Thomas Jefferson