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I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.
Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.
Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.
Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
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.
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'
I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.
Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country.
I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.
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.
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.
I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.
I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career.
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.