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Ah, Jean-Luc...sometimes I think the only reason I keep coming here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours — Q

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. — Henry Adams

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. — Charles Krauthammer

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches. — Helmut Schmidt

Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches. — Doug Benson

Even his own speeches bored him. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater. — Lord Chesterfield

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. — Samuel Rogers

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. — Peggy Noonan

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am. — Richard Cobden

[Stump speeches] are to oratory what a stump is to a tree. — Jon Stewart

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. — John Major

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver. — Aristotle.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms. — Ron Brackin

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan] — Gerald R. Ford

Be selfish with your speeches; be generous with your listening. — Debasish Mridha

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them. — Jeff Kinney

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches. — Clare De Graaf

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled. — Tucker Max

No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short — Stephen Keague

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. — Gore Vidal

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. — Amit Kalantri

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches ... all of it. — MaryJanice Davidson

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. — Will Rogers

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. — Homer

Speeches are for politicians. We are Milliners, Wonderlanders of action. — Frank Beddor

As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish. — Demosthenes

All the things we did for this land of ours!
Some of us died;
Some of us gave speeches. — Orhan Veli Kanik

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. — J.K. Rowling

If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool. — Thomas Cahill

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. — Elaine Stritch

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

William tapped Nicholas on the shoulder and said, My advice to you is more speeches and more parades. — Robert K. Massie

... I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair. — Carlos A. Angeles

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field. — Jim Hunt

Oratory is the highest form of music — Agona Apell

Did you google 'best groveling speeches' while I was passed out? — Priscilla Glenn

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption. — Narendra Modi

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered. — Peggy Noonan

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. — Anthony Trollope

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead. — Anna Mickelson

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter F. Drucker

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs! — Pat Paulsen

The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power. — George Friedman

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use — Aristotle.

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world. — Mike Barnicle

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence. — Brad McKinniss

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country ... but the profits ... skyrocket ... — Smedley Butler

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right. — Rickey Henderson

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot. — Joe Strummer

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club's worth of speeches. — Allison Glock

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies. — Robert Moment

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems. — Marco Rubio

Side benefit of dating me: free motivational speeches. It's like friends with benefits where the benefits are inspirational. — Josh Sundquist

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. — Scott Simon

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. — Fidel Castro

Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I — Jon Ronson

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word. — Gautama Buddha

Speeches pass away, but acts remain. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel. — James C. Humes

[ ... ] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people. — Thein Sein

Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed — Sigrid MacRae

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in. — Ann Richards

I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court. — Clarence Thomas

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance — Thom Yorke

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. — Dale Carnegie

When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. — Alain De Botton

Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration — David Baldacci

The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech — Stephen Keague

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain. — Klaus Kinski

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood — Otto Von Bismarck

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face! — Michelle Obama

In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, — Anonymous

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. — Lydia Ko

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. — Gwen Ifill

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' — John Bolton

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. — Jesse Jackson

It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech. — Herman Cain

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. — Pete Seeger

Nature doesn't make long speeches. — Laozi

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. — Plutarch

They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. — Rob Lowe

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It wasn't many people who got inspirational speeches from demons. Nick counted himself lucky in that regard.
Or cursed. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

In presentations or speeches less really is more — Stephen Keague

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Speeches — Adolf Hitler

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. — Will Rogers

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Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful. — Deyth Banger

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. — Bennett Cerf

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump. — Karen Morley

And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail. — Stephen King

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches. — Tony Benn

Speeches are like steer horns- A point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between. — E. Anderson

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future. — Patrick Dixon