Quotes About Speaker

The speaker's role is supposed to be revered, but Pelosi is so hooked on hatred and spite, she brings all of Congress into disrepute.

Distrust any speaker who speaks confidently about "we," or speaks in the name of "us." Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your own style. The search for security and majority are not always the same as solidarity; it can be another name for consensus and tyranny and tribalism. Never forget that, even if there are "masses" to be invoked, or "the people" to be praised, they and it must by definition be composed of individuals.

I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

As Speaker, I passed Maine's most aggressive carbon emission reduction and renewable energy standards, and in the Senate, I will prioritize moving toward a completely clean and renewable energy system.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

not everyone who speaks in the spirit is a prophet, but only if he exhibits the Lord's ways … if any prophet teaches the truth, yet does not practise what he teaches, he is a false prophet'.

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Do you understand?" the figure beside the first speaker demanded. Its voice, unlike that of its companion, was light and breathy—the voice of an excited girl. Every inch of its head had been tattooed with an intricate grid, and at every intersection of horizontal and vertical axes a jeweled pin driven through to the bone. Its tongue was similarly decorated. "Do you even know who we are?" it asked.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial—and any question about sex is that—one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

We hung up and I thought, boy, he's a speaker. For a minute there, I thought it was Patton.

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

The applause light comes on. The audience claps like crazy. Theme music swells out of the speaker.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

I thought speakers didn't believe in sin, said a sullen boy. Andrew smiled. You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.

But the Speaker for the Dead, the one who wrote this book, he's the wisest man who lived in the age of flight among the stars. While Ender was a murderer, he killed a whole people, a beautiful race of ramen that could have taught us everything—' 'Both human, though,' whispered the Speaker.

life was worthwhile enough, despite their errors, that when they died a Speaker should tell the truth for them.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.