#speeches

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#by the time #candidates #day #each #election

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. ↗

— Jerry Moran

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I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump. ↗

— Karen Morley

#giving #i #like #rump #sitting

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect. ↗

— Johann Most

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Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#dependent #formal #halls #his #idea

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#magic #policy #speech #speeches #without

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#gives #graduate #heads #high #high school

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#enough #friends #get #i #latest

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ↗

— Archibald Primrose

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