Speaker Quotes

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In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake… — Stephen Colbert
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. — George Henry Lewes
When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs… — Jack Handey
All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like… — Stan Freberg
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obamaâ€™s handicap is Joe Biden. — Jay Leno
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of… — Jay Leno
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. — Joseph H. Greenberg
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I… — Frank Laubach
When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless… — Scott Berkun
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born… — Barbara Cameron
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… — Geoff Davis
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood… — W. S. Gilbert
Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught… — Nick Morgan
He was the keynote speaker for our better angels. — Andrew Cuomo
The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for… — Cleta Mitchell
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is.… — Carl Jung
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B.F. Skinner
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.… — Donald James
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers… — Leon Trotsky
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. — Marie Clay

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