Speakers Quotes - Page 19

• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Latin, Earthquakes, Numbers

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• The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

  Lucy Stone

  Teacher, Memories, Disappointment

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Criminals

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• He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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• Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

  Daniel Schorr

  People, Abuse, Welfare

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• I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Unsaid, Knows

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• The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.

  Spiros Zodhiates

  Statements

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Attention, Asking, Entertainment

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “The Art of Public Speaking”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

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• Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Offering, World

  "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 261), 1964.

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• Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

  Robert A. Brady

  Rivers, Cargo, Delaware

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• I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Keys, Attributes

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• To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Calling, Moments

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.71, Gideon House Books

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• One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

  Herman Cain

  Motivation, Organization, People

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". Interview with Devin Gordon, Alan Richman, Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

  Tony Campolo

  Careers, Critics

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kind, Speak, Truth Is

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• Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

  William P. Leahy

  Teaching, Church, May

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• When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Giving, Advertising, Summit

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

  Geoff Davis

  Numbers, Mind, Use

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• To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Silent, Mediocre, Public Good

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.576, Library of America

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• I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

  John Bercow

  Children, House, My Children

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

  Melissa Bean

  Democracy, Engagement, Electorate

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• The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Moving, People, Feels

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speak, Listeners

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