Quotes About Campaign Speech

#1. Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

David Ignatius

#2. There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Sergio De La Pava

#3. During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

Fred Thompson

#4. If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Michael Arrington

#5. Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.

Steve Harvey

#6. But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

John McCain

#7. When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

Jimy Williams

#8. There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

Mark McKinnon

#9. Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

Sarah Palin

#10. Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle.

#11. Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Matt Welch

#12. Oh. Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister's wife.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#13. One must occasionally stand the world on
its head in order to put it on its feet.

Henning Mankell

#14. Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed speech the other night, yelling? I see why his wife won't campaign with him. In fact, Dean has a new slogan: 'Aaghhhh.'

Jay Leno

#15. Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Rick Warren

#16. He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.

Elisabeth Elliot

#17. It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

#18. When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky
without leaving a trace.

Julietta Suzuki

#19. Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

Roger Stone

#20. As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

James L. Buckley

#21. I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

George W. Bush

#22. I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

Michael Emerson

#23. Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#24. In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Ilona Andrews

#25. That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#26. With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

Eileen Myles

#27. Mason left the room and then yelled from the hall, This is bullshit, cowshit, horseshit, and donkeyshit.

Madison Parker

#28. During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Henry Adams

#29. Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

Jeb Bush