#speech

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#aggressive #am #anything #been #believer

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#chocolates #communicating #communication #drinks #establish

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#board #control #editorial #gun #gun control

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#ann #before #cancellation #commit #crimes

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#basically #been #convention #conventions #debates

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#blair #consider #human #human rights #jack

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

#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#human nature #itself #language #nature #none

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. ↗

— Michael Caine

#exactly #opposite #speech #texas