"The best response is always to answer bad speech with more speech."

Considered by some to be the worst presidential speech in history, the address asserted that our problems are "deeper than gasoline lines."

Such remarks have the unmistakable ring of a bad speech after a good dinner.

Still, one bad speech does not merit a sacking.

Instead, we saw that they were just garden-variety politicians making bad speeches.

Justice Brandeis said long ago that, under our system of freedom, the right way to deal with bad speech is to answer it.

And as there is bad speech there are also bad images.

It wasn't a bad speech, he thought, particularly as it was off the cuff and delivered sober.

I wrote a nice bad speech, so sugary you had to lick your fingers afterward.

Not a bad speech, he decided - a large carrot and a small stick.