#speech

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. ↗

— David Frum

#hands #many #presidential #speech #work

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. ↗

— David Frum

#am #because #events #going #happen

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#current #first #freedom #freedom of speech #guaranteed

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#culture #i #i think #manifestation #our

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#forensics #i #speech #team