Help writing formal speeches into fiction?

Question

I'm writing a story which involves a scene of the president delivering a speech. The speech is fairly long, perhaps a page in length? and involves several different ideas which (if written as a formal speech) would deserve their own paragraphs. However, the singular character dialogue is uninterrupted by narration or other dialogue for effect. My question, what are the grammatical rules for structuring such a speech? IE, paragraphs within quotes? should there be end quotation marks at the ends and start quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph? One quotation mark at the beginning of the speech and one at the end, with multiple paragraphs between and no additional quotation marks to signify continuing dialogue? Please help, thanks!

Answer 1

One at the beginning of the speech and one at the end of the speech.  One at the beginning of every paragraph within the speech, but none at the ends of the paragraphs except the very last one.

This is standard form for such things, any style guide will tell you.  I suggest getting a style guide to help you as you write.