I put my energy, voice, and spirit into fighting for anybody who wants to speak their voice. I don’t care what the right wing, the left wing, or the chicken wing has to say. – Donna Brazile
With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses. – Marcia Gay Harden
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that’s what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately. – Chita Rivera
I don’t need to speak about N’Golo; everyone knows about him. He’s everywhere. I think, sometimes when I’m on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I’m playing with twins! – Eden Hazard
For me, if I’m going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don’t get to speak on TV. – David Denman
We’ve got to be fair. You can’t say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We’ve got to be just. We’ve got to speak the truth. We’ve got to have justice for everybody. We’re a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others. – Feisal Abdul Rauf
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it’s a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. – E. P. Thompson
Some of my fans have said that because I’ve been able to speak about my issues, that they’re not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling. – Demi Lovato
It’s difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience. – Dennis Crowley
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people. – Gene Robinson
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we’ve made a hero of the rebel, and it’s more heroic to speak up. – Eddie Campbell
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. – Fredrik Bajer
I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. – Gloria Steinem
To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I’m going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don’t sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan. – Narada Michael Walden
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. – Francis Bacon
When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there’s always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham’s legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia’s characters, particularly in the commentary box. – Max Walker
If I’m on my own, I’ll speak to ‘Monkey’ to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don’t do it for moral support, although I wouldn’t say that’s out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it… yes, I think I should actually start doing it more. – Nina Conti
One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts. – Paul Gosar
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don’t speak English. – Martin Jacques
When I speak of drama, I’m really referring to just ‘desperately trying not to be ordinary’. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity. – Gore Verbinski
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and… I dabble in a couple of languages, but I’m not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic. – Cote de Pablo
In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves. – Eric Heiden
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. – Matt Bomer
I speak to my agent about great roles, and he’s like, ‘They are all going to Will Smith.’ – Cuba Gooding, Jr.
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet. – Paul Ryan
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room. – Florence Nightingale
Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of. – Donald McCaig