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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech remi

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. – Peggy Noonan

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[A]ll great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren’t a little flower somebody sewed on. – Peggy Noonan

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. – Peggy Noonan

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Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, on speechmaking

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Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. – Alfred E. Neuman

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His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. – Author Unknown

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