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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.
I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.
One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.
I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
I really respect the work and speeches of Tony Benn. He was a powerful speaker with a huge heart.
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.
Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.
I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
I don't know how many speeches I have given saying, 'No child worse off.'
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.
Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
I'm not one for those motivational speeches. I've always been more of an example guy.
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
The government is opposed to all statements/speeches which divide the country on the basis of religion, caste, and creed.
President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.
[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.
People always need to hear good motivational speeches.
I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.
We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
I don't have to prepare any speeches for love. It's something that I engage with on a consistent basis.
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.
Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.
I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.
I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.
