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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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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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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Dont go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else. – Peggy Noonan

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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