“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.” MayLittlesImportantIndividualJusticeViewsSpeechElementsMessagesFunctionConstitutionRegardSanctionsCognitiveOften Is Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.” MenWayKindMeanArtWarFormPoliticalCoursesBoysEconomyHellTelevisionIndustrySpeechMessagesSakeNewspapersPrincipalGrandchildrenColumnsBattlefieldsPolitical SpeechesMerchandising Book:Bluebeard: A Novel Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.” BelieveStillsTodayMovingFightingI BelievePartyHeardSpeechMessages1960s Author:Roy Jenkins
“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” IfsShouldLife IsPresidentNumbersMoralPositionMoralitySpeechMessagesCompromiseAbortionLife And DeathPresident ObamaImmoralExtremistPro LifeDamesNotre DameBetween Life And Death Author:Rush Limbaugh