Speaker Quotes - page 8

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. (Kenneth G. Wilson)
I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. View quote
Les Paul
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. View quote
Lois Capps
Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He's humble. View quote
Marlon Wayans
Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership. View quote
Albio Sires
Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. View quote
Alan Nunnelee
If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi? View quote
Alan Nunnelee
Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front. View quote
Marty Meehan
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when. (Max de Pree)
I built all the speaker cabinets myself. View quote
Mike Gordon
To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. View quote
Roland Allen
If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out. View quote
Raymond Duncan
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. View quote
Sherwood Boehlert
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
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. View quote
Tina Brown
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. View quote
Taylor Mali
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. View quote
Vito Fossella
I'm a motivational speaker. (Young Jeezy)
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. View quote
Young Jeezy
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard. View quote
Yasmine Galenorn
Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker. View quote
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson