#speaker

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out. ↗

— Raymond Duncan

#boil #down #must #out #speaker

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#around #asia #becoming #disasters #earthquakes

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #bipartisan #bird #colleagues #continue

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#actually #against #attack #capacity #difficult

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#attention #fail #keep #life #listeners

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#conviction #given #know #nature #overstatement

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#ann #before #cancellation #commit #crimes

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok. ↗

— Don Knotts

#come #did #make #me #nice

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#date #decree #hereby #house #i

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi? ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#had #nancy #nancy pelosi #opportunity #pelosi