political speech

A political speech is a formal oral presentation delivered by a public figure or candidate to persuade, inform, or mobilize an audience about political ideas, policies, or actions.

Aliases (22)

• political text ×8
• inaugural address ×3
• political appeal ×3
• Cold War speech ×2
• climate change speech ×2
• presidential address ×2
• televised address ×2
• anti‑war speech ×1
• campaign speech ×1
• civil rights speech ×1
• formal speech ×1
• historical speech ×1
• independence speech ×1
• parliamentary address ×1
• policy speech ×1
• political address ×1
• political communication ×1
• presidential inaugural address ×1
• propaganda discourse ×1
• protest speech ×1
• public speech ×1
• segregationist speech ×1

Instances (62)

• Eisenhower's farewell address
• "Day of Infamy" speech
• Sinews of Peace
• Ich bin ein Berliner speech ("Cold War speech")
• "I Have a Dream" speech ("public speech")
• Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) ("climate change speech")
• Tryst with Destiny speech
• 1950 State of the Union Address
• Letter from Birmingham Jail ("political text")
• Gettysburg Address
• 11 August 1947 address to Pakistan's Constituent Assembly
• John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech
• 1975 State of the Union Address
• "bodies upon the gears" speech
• Farewell Address
• Address to the People of Great Britain ("political appeal")
• Address to the People of Quebec ("political appeal")
• "How dare you" speech at the UN in 2019 ("climate change speech")
• Mister Speaker ("parliamentary address")
• 1949 State of the Union Address
• Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• Little Red Book ("political text")
• Confession of Mikhail Bakunin ("political text")
• Hitler’s Reichstag speech of 1 September 1939
• Checkers speech
• Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs ("presidential address")
• First Inaugural Address
• Fireside chats on banking crisis ("political communication")
• Olive Branch Petition ("political appeal")
• The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions ("political text")
• "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech
• Haile Selassie speech to League of Nations
• Nutuk ("political text")
• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (indirectly) ("policy speech")
• Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" ("inaugural address")
• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ("political text")
• J’accuse…! ("political text")
• Prime Minister's Independence Day address ("political address")
• Eisenhower's 1960 State of the Union Address
• On Guerrilla Warfare ("political text")
• Secret Speech of 1956
• On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
• Cold War rhetoric ("propaganda discourse")
• Appeal of 18 June
• Second Inaugural Address ("presidential inaugural address")