Quotations
Quotes:
'You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies... and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.'
View quotes by Bob Geldof
As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.
View quotes by Rowan Atkinson
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt
It's so important that in my music I convey positive messages, and this song is definitely a universal message that everybody can relate to - anyone that's been discriminated against or unaccepted, unappreciated or disrespected just because of who you are,' Aguilera said in her acceptance speech. 'It was so important to me that I support the gay community in this sense. It's so sad that still in 2003 we even have to give awards like this. And that's why I'm here to show my love and support to all of you. [GLAAD Acceptance Speech 2003]
View quotes by Christina Aguilera
Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute [on the speech at Charles' wedding to Camilla]
View quotes by Jilly Cooper
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars (Madame Bovary)
View quotes by Gustav Flaubert
The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed - until the pips squeak. (Speech at Cambridge, 10 Dec 1918)
View quotes by Sir Eric Geddes
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind (Speech at Harvard, 1943)
View quotes by Winston Churchill
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Speech in London, 1970)
View quotes by Abba Eban
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. (Speech in Montreal 24 July 1967)
View quotes by Charles De Gaulle
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. (Speech at his trial for sedition in Cleveland 1918)
View quotes by Eugene Victor Debs
It is far easier to make war than to make peace (speech, 1919)
View quotes by Georges Clemenceau
The first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
View quotes by Hiram Johnson
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role (Speech, 1962)
View quotes by Dean Acheson
The man who makes no mistakes does not make anything (Speech at the Mansion House, London)
View quotes by Edward John Phelps
A Star for every State, and a State for every Star (Speech on Boston Common)
View quotes by Robert Charles Winthrop
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy (speech in Albany, 27 June 1933)
View quotes by Alfred Emanuel Smith
The politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? (speech, 1980)
View quotes by Roy Jenkins
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
View quotes by Ingrid Bergman
The century on which we are entering - the century which will come out of this war - can be and must be the century of the common man. (Speech, 8 May 1942)
View quotes by Henry Wallace
