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I unfortunately believe and I use the word unfortunately because Speaker Black's career is long and illustrious that this matter needs to be referred to the district attorney for the district attorney to look at that issue and make those decisions.

The vice president did pretty much what the speaker does now. If they're that awesome, they should be leading a committee. That's where all the action is.

I've never heard of him. I don't know anything about the speaker so there's nothing that makes me want to get up early and go to it. I might catch it on TV.

The spirit of the speaker will determine the spirit of the audience

The speaker wrote his letter to the BRAC commission based on sound policy grounds.

The speaker wants members on both sides of the aisle to understand the nuances of House rules.

The speaker wants J.C. back. He thinks he's an integral part of his leadership team.

The Speaker thinks it's a good move on their part so that Congress can properly review this deal.

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

The speaker of the House predicts it'll pass, and I'd like to believe the speaker.

The Speaker of the House of Rwanda is usually the position that moves into the presidency.

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.

The speaker is very concerned about compensation packages given to executives like Raymond at a time when families are facing choices between putting food on the table and filling their car with gasoline. We met with Exxon Mobil and several companies last fall, and it seems that the message hasn't gotten through.

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

The speaker is introduced at 7:30 and speaks for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then we have a round of prayer.

The speaker is concerned about Congressman Evans' health and hopes he gets well and returns to work when he feels better.

The speaker has very little in the way of carrots or sticks.

The speaker has said if you get 50 members who sign a letter calling for elections, we'll have elections. Mr. Reynolds is not one of those people.

The Speaker has made it known that you want to be careful on those things.

The speaker has had a long history of being against Indian reservation shopping in Illinois.

The speaker has been pushing for the elimination of the sales tax on clothing for years and is disappointed in the governor's proposal. It's a tax increase on working families. For the day-to-day life of working families, the elimination would be much more to their benefit.

The speaker forced a lot of members to cast votes on school finance and other issues that were not always popular with the folks back home, and that's what a lot of members were having to defend themselves on during this campaign.

The speaker does support many aspects of education reform.

The speaker did an excellent job. What made it really good was that he spoke at a student level, rather than at the level he could have and that helped the audience understand better.

The speaker cares a great deal about this because the players are role models who set standards for kids in high school and college,

The speaker believes the minority leader should ask Representative Mollohan to step aside from the ethics committee during this investigation.

The Speaker believes that while these contributions were legal, it is appropriate to donate the money to charity.

The Speaker believes that we should be as inclusive as possible. We have several women that would make outstanding leaders.

The Speaker asked Chairman Nussle to begin work on this. We hope to get a bill to the president's desk that will make a sizable impact on the price tag of the recovery effort.

The speaker appreciates him being a team player and remaining in his current post.

Ten years ago when Dan Blue was speaker, he had $125,000 and everybody thought it was an outrage. Today, Speaker Black has over a million dollars, and no one thinks it's an outrage. It's gotten that competitive.

Sometimes the speaker and mayor agree and sometimes they don't, but the mayor has tremendous respect for the speaker and they share a good working relationship and a commitment to improve the lives of all New Yorkers.

Purists can sniff that the new Hi-Fi speaker system is a glorified boom box, but for Microsoft and others the message is clear: Jobs &Co. are coming on strong.

Our door is always open to Speaker Richards. We look forward to working with him in the upcoming session.

People don't know who the speaker of the City Council is; they only know who the mayor is. We were always going to have to have things come our way in the end for him to make a runoff.

advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

Speaker for the Dead made me want to be a writer.

Speaker Black can use this as an opportunity to clear his name given all of this speculation that has been spreading around these contributions.

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court's history.

An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio, Musial and Ted Williams.

Another speaker could not duplicate what I do, but I could do what they do.

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

Back then, you didn't have the quarterback-coach communication (through the speaker system in the helmet),

As parliamentary speaker and under the constitution, I assume powers as head of state until the new presidential election.

This is not about Speaker Black. This is about what is in the best interest of children.

The White House is happy, the Democrats are happy, the speaker is happy, and the American people should be happy.

This fundraiser has been held for nearly a decade and was planned more than a year ago. The notion that the speaker is supporting this bill for any other reason than it is good public policy that will save California consumers $1 billion is absurd.

Although these trips are perfectly legal, the speaker believes he has a responsibility to lead by example in his effort to institute stricter ethics rules.

There was a speaker stack, a leap of faith, he jumped. He landed it, but he blew out his heel. Diego finished the show from the floor with a bunch of people standing over him, taking pictures.

This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.

They're all directly associated with his positions as a member and speaker of the Assembly.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

It's just one more thing that people get to hear about the speaker in a bad light. It just keeps a constant type of drumbeat alive, and keeps his name in the public's consciousness.

It wasn't just the distance, it was the clarity and the immediate feedback that you get from the person on the other end. You get to enjoy body language and real, live conversation as opposed to a speaker on a conference call.

It was a lot of talk and no action. Farrakhan is trying to have it both ways. He is a charismatic and charming speaker but he doesn't want to alienate anyone, nor does he want anyone to present their specific agenda.

It's past the time for study commissions and committee meetings. If the governor wants to lead on ethics, he can do two things - call for Jim Black to step aside as speaker of the House, and rescind Bill Culpepper's appointment to the Utilities Commission for taking a contribution from a regulated utility after he was appointed.

That's scandalously reckless language for the speaker to be using.

That, in a nutshell, explains why the Democratic speaker of the assembly, Fabian Nunez, quietly amended a bill this week to grant movie producers tens of millions of dollars in subsidies from a state treasury that already is drowning in red ink, with multibillion-dollar annual deficits.

It was a heartfelt expression from the speaker that we have to work in a unified fashion, or the whole thing starts to deteriorate,

It's wonderful. The speakers, such as keynote speaker (U.S. Sen.) Lamar Alexander, will speak, sign autographs, and we will have tables with various prizes such as the ones sent by presidential candidate John McCain.

They've put something into the statute that wasn't there. Certainly neither the speaker nor anyone in his campaign thought this was illegal.

I want to talk to the speaker and the lieutenant governor,

I want to take full responsibility for my actions, and to that end, I am submitting a letter of resignation as Chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee to Speaker Glenn Richardson.

Slate's very, very hard. If too much sound from the crowd hits that stage wall, it will bounce back and hit the speaker at the podium from behind as a giant echo, and that could really disturb them as they're delivering a speech.

The language of resistance, of political discourse, is sometimes harsh. But a political speaker must be free to excite his audience.

The message from the speaker is that oil companies need to do more work to bring oil and gas prices down.

The center was awarded money early in the year, but construction costs have gone up. Even after they cut some of the cost, they were still short. We thank the Speaker Seth Hammett and Senator Jimmy Holley for making the funds available. The center got its Christmas wish.

I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.

I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position,

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

If you come to no other King rally than this one, this is the year to do it. That' because we have the best keynote speaker possible. We have Dr. King himself.

In response to the request of the speaker of the House, I have directed the House Judiciary Committee staff to begin a preliminary inquiry into the tactics employed in the seizure of Elian Gonzalez by federal authorities,

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

In fact, there's a working cell phone that you can fasten onto your dog's collar and call him anytime that you want. It acts as a little speaker phone.

I guess that makes us like Florida, because we like to stomp on Cinderella. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank our team's sponsor, Speaker City, for their support as well as all their quality products.

Being Speaker of the House is a really tough spot.

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.

I commend the Senate president and the speaker on their leadership, ... I look forward to making Melanie's bill, Melanie's law.

The guys just came out great, and I've been telling them all week that it's just mental. I think those two days we had off this week were a good confidence builder. We just talked about the mental part of the game and even had a motivational speaker come out and I think that was a big plus.

The HCB-100 is a Bluetooth car speaker that clips onto the visor of a car, but can also be used as a desk stand, with 20 hours of talk time and 600 of standby.

All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got,

The easiest connections for Republicans to make in the fall are how much money Democratic House members have taken from Speaker Black and how vociferously House members have defended Speaker Black.

The conference will begin with an overview of national issues from Representative Kevin Brady and will be followed by an array of speakers focusing on local and regional issues. The keynote speaker for the luncheon will be Governor Rick Perry.

Am I disappointed that my own speaker decided to do some arm-twisting? Yes, I'm disappointed.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we arepowerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be? ...an excerpt from "A Return To Love", a book by motivational speaker and author Marianne Williamson