speech Quotes

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

People say I'm shrill and strident.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Words are loaded pistols.