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Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.


Melissa Bean


#best #democracy #electorate #engaged #informed

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.


Charles Horton Cooley


#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.


Bill Lipinski


#am #committed #congressional #delegation #ensure

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.


David Petraeus


#could #council #difficult #during #elected

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.


Plutarch


#disposition #mind #seen #speaker #state

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.


Nick Rahall


#cannot #committee #ever #fact #half

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.


Ted Rall


#association #because #cartoonists #confused #editorial

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.


Jim Ramstad


#am #does #grateful #i #i am

Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.


Jim Ramstad


#debilitating #diseases #embryonic #embryonic stem cells #evidence

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.


Clarence Budington Kelland


#brilliant #contrast #dull #duty #speakers