Quotes About Political Speeches

#1. Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Mike Royko

#2. I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

Ida B. Wells

#3. I remembered the last time I put this thing into my eye it was more painful than watching old political speeches while listening to the "Macarena" and having a root canal performed by an angry, clumsy chimp.

John Zakour

#4. For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

Michael Ignatieff

#5. A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

George D. Prentice

#6. Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.

T. Rafael Cimino

#8. We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

David Brinkley

#9. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Mary McCarthy

#10. He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Gerald R. Ford

#11. The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#12. There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

John Locke

#13. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing

Virginia Woolf

#14. If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Woodrow Wilson

#15. Piracy is almost always a service problem ...

Gabe Newell

#16. I heard he was disciplined by the church for supporting some other preacher who came out homosexual in Denver. I believe it was something of that nature.

Kent Haruf

#17. The moon was out and I saw some sheep.
I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,
They walked all night from near to far.
I would never walk, I would take a car.

Dr. Seuss

#18. Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.

Edgar Cayce

#19. The activity for the day is Avoiding Satanic Influences

Jessica Verdi

#20. Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Mary McCarthy

#21. As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Albert Camus

#22. What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow ... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.

Jason Katims

#23. All men have need of the gods.

Homer

#24. Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.

Mike Barnicle

#25. A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Diana Wynne Jones

#26. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Helmut Schmidt

#27. Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.

Julie Powell