Speakers Quotes - Page 7

• I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Bad Ass, Numbers

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• What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Recourse, Remedy

  "Boom: Trey Gowdy Just Roasted Obama To A Crisp On The House Floor And Earned A Standing Ovation". Speech at the House of Representatives, www.westernjournalism.com. August 8, 2014.

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• It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

  Trey Gowdy

  Stupid, Bad Ass, Office

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• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Envy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Voice, Air

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• A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

  Aristotle

  Moving, People, Speech

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• Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Winning, Listening

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• Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teaching, Promise

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• Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glowing, Experience, Audience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Complaining, Speech

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• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Salon" Interview with Dwight Garner, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

  Chris Chocola

  United States, Significant, Congress

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• The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Oratory, Matter, Politician

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• I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

  Cliff Martinez

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Heart, Thinking, Progress

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• .......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

  James Traficant

  Politics, Truth Is, Hiding

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Trying

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• In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hollywood, Dinner, Ends

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

  John Powell

  Want, Nonviolent Communication, Good Listener

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• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  William Howard Taft

  Too Much, Trouble

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

  John Bercow

  Taken, Thinking, Records

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• Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

  Mohammed Dib

  Reading, Book, Books And Reading

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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