Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.
I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with indivi...
Dr. Lester: She's got her doctorate in speech impedimentology from Case Western.
Dr. Lester: I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
