This paper analyzes political discourse through inaugural speeches of all the presidents of the Republic of Croatia. Inaugural speeches are analyzed on lexical, morphological and syntactic level. Introduction section provides the basic premises of linguistic stylistics and quantitative linguistics, which is followed by the insight in the main functional and border styles of the standard Croatian language, with special emphasis on administrative-business and rhetorical functional style, to which political speeches belong. The language of political speeches is further analyzed in the „Political discourse “ section, where is observed through the prism of public speeches and its linguistic and stylistic rules. That is followed by linguostylistic analysis, first on lexical and morphological level – lexical density, lexical diversity, word classes, frequency dictionary, semantic categories of verbs, then on syntactic level – syntactic complexity, frequency of different types of sentences and the frequency of the different types of connectors. Political discourse of inaugural speeches have shown characteristics of administrativebusiness style and rhetoric functional substyle – predominance of noun constructions, intensification as a type of nominalization, and predominance of subordination over coordination.