“At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.” TryingDoeEnergyPresidentBreakRecordsCuttingSpeechResearchProgramAddictionEfficiencyFundingEnergy Efficiency Author:Bob Menendez
“He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.” MadeHouseWhiteImpossibleSpeechProgramConstitutionWhite HouseRevision Author:William Howard Taft
“Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.” MeanStatesOpportunityPovertyRolesSpeechProgramBiggerPoliceRewardsEnvironmentalSpendingAbsurdLiberalismRegulationDependenceWorkplaceNanniesFatty Author:John Stossel
“Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around - under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around and support draconian cuts in federal funding for education. He never had an answer.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolMotherTurnsAnswersSupportCuttingSpecialSpeechProgramPressesDevotionAcademicVeteranConferencesFundingGovernment ProgramsFailure In LifePress ConferencesDeceasedStumpsDraconian Author:Gail Collins
“[Barack Obama] had already signed Lilly Ledbetter, signed SCHIP, the children's health insurance program. By the time he had his first address to the joint session, that is as it is called, the first speech, he could say, this is what I asked for, this is what we have done in the first four weeks.” FirstsChildrenDoneFourWeekSpeechProgramBarackAddressesSessionJoints Author:Nancy Pelosi
“I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.” I CanUseGuyTalkingTypeSpeechProgramAddDragons Author:Terry Pratchett
“I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.” WritingSpeechProgramBoresFreestyle Author:Marjane Satrapi