Susan Estrich Quotes
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always have issues with trust.
-
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
-
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
-
I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
-
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
-
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
-
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
-
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
-
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
-
It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
-
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
-
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
-
I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
-
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
-
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
-
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.
-
Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
-
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
-
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
-
With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
-
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
-
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
-
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.
-
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
