Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

Tim Cahill

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

Bea Arthur

Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue.

Linda Lingle

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Daniel Ellsberg

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Earl Browder

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secre...

Edward Snowden

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by w...

Frank B. Kellogg

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Robert Higgs

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

Robert D. Kaplan

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

William Westmoreland

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

Called To Excel

...but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...

The Complete Fiction

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Clockwork Prince

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Darkness Left Undone

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Embrace The Darkness

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

Finnikin of the Rock

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

The Blind Assassin

Let's Shout It Out and Speak As One. Mind Rock On, The Gemini One.

Book One: Who Am I?

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine