Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.

Jon Lovett

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

Ajit Pai

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

Alex Pareene

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

Alex Pareene

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

Amul Thapar

If you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech.

Ana Kasparian

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

Ana Kasparian

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

Ann Coulter

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

Anthony Kennedy

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.

Bob Geldof

If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.

Bradley A. Smith

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.

Bradley A. Smith

The list of erratic actions from Mohammed bin Salman is long: the jailing of royal family members, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, a nonsensical feud with Qatar, the growing internal repression of political speech, and the disastrous war in Yemen.

Chris Murphy

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

Frankie Boyle

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

James L. Buckley

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Joe Biden

The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

John Quelch

Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.

Jon Lovett

Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have the possibility to reach the parts that political speeches will never reach.

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

Laura Loomer