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Mrs. Ransom wants him to go with her to hear the speeches this evening -- the _speeches_, you understand?

The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899

The reason he doesn't do well in speeches is because it's not from the heart and you can plainly see he lies continuously and then gets stumped.

After bad press, McCain goes back to town-halls 2008

I do certainly think that much of the animation in some of the speeches is the general animation of the Nation, and that if they were spoken to an audience they would be felt.

Letter 114 2009

It seems the most the cable networks will ever show of his speeches is about 3-5 minutes whereas they will show Palin's 17th rendition of the same speech for like 10 minutes sgwhiteinfla

A Blogger’s Life - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

Nothing could be more ragged than these utterances which they called speeches; so patched, and darned; and yet, somehow or other -- though dull and heavy as all which seemed to inspire them -- they had a kind of force.

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

You found all kinds of quotes in speeches made by O (implicitly) condemning the Insurance industry, but, well, at the end of the day the one feature in HCR that would actually rationalize health care delivery by removing parasitic intermediaries, was opposed by the parasitic insurance industry; and O heard and dutifully followed!

Matthew Yglesias » Setback for Public Option Revival as Rockefeller Says No 2010

But across the country, Pelosi was vilified as a dangerous liberal, on television and in speeches - by Republicans, sure, but also by some moderate Democrats who for purposes of their own survival ran away from her.

As Democrats lose House, Nancy Pelosi's historic reign as speaker ends Philip Rucker 2010

HOUSTON, TEXAS — Today Bill White called on Governor Rick Perry to stop using false statistics and to stop misleading the public about border crime in speeches and on websites.

Think Progress » Beck To Headline Texas Event With Rick Perry, The Man He Once Said He Wanted To ‘French Kiss’ 2010

Obama's reading of his speeches from the teleprompter?

Palin's note pad. 2010

The reason the filibuster no longer requires actual speeches is supposedly because it prevent the Senate from getting anything done.

Matthew Yglesias » Pure Stalling 2010