At his trial, he offers no defense, only a long speech explaining the simple rules by which he lives.
Now, I am not here to give a long speech, because I want everybody out there, not in here.
President Obama gave a long speech Wednesday to the Business Roundtable.
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He launched into a long speech about the record of News International, and looked discomforted when some of the journalists laughed out loud when he concluded.
Well, listen, I'm not going to give a long speech, because I just want to make sure that I get a chance to shake everybody's hands.
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And I want to assure you I am not going to go over the whole thing again this morning. (Laughter.) That was a long speech.
So I'm not going to give a long speech today.
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What I'm going to do is I -- I enjoy having a conversation as opposed to giving a long speech -- although I've been known to -- (laughter.) So I'm just going to make a few brief remarks at the top.
Yet David Cameron has still to fix a date let alone finalise the text of a long promised speech spelling out his European policy.
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You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you it call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech.
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Mr Cameron is to make a long-awaited speech on Europe, with many of his MPs calling on him to pledge a referendum.
He is also scheduled to deliver a long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt, on June 4.
Mr Cameron is due to make a long-awaited speech on the UK's future role in the EU later this month, with some Conservative MPs calling for a referendum on whether to stay in or leave.
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In a long-awaited speech, Mr Cameron pledged to hold a referendum during the early part of the next parliament - by the end of 2017 at the latest - if the Conservatives win the next general election.
Mr Cameron had been due to make a long-awaited speech on the UK's future relationship with Europe in the Netherlands on Friday, but made the decision to postpone his speech after a meeting of Cobra and a phone call with the Algerian prime minister.
Even before the prime minister has uttered a word of his long-awaited speech on Europe - a speech in which he is expected to call for a re-negotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU followed by a referendum - David Cameron is being warned about the consequences.
In a speech not long ago he said that in 80 countries people's incomes were lower than they were ten years earlier.
Last year, at a meeting of trustees of the International Council of Shopping Centers, he delivered a several-minutes long speech that people present described as "heartfelt" and "emotional, " thanking his peers for their support and giving his account of General Growth's troubles.
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Absent from his speech was a long-term plan to reduce the debt and deficit, create jobs, and achieve lasting economic growth.
Mr. Maduro's speech capped a long weekend during which tension receded significantly.
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The audience gave the producer a minute-long standing ovation before allowing him to make a speech, which displayed his distinctive modesty and wit.
But the order eased up considerably the ban on future speech, so long as that speech is not tied to a demand for money.
But whatever the outcome, at that moment Tuesday night, the focused energy of this president at this stage of his presidency reverberated through the rafters of the Capitol and suggested that this long speech was not a laundry list but a to-do list, an agenda for change offered up by a confident and empowered advocate.
She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
She, you know, and she gave a pretty long preamble, especially in her first speech in Des Moines.
In an hour-long speech he pledged to be a "responsible" opposition leader and not oppose every proposed spending cut.
Recently, however, the sheikh had again irked the ruling Al Saud family with a speech marking the death of the long-standing interior minister, Prince Nayef, who had also recently become the crown prince, as well as having been in charge of the religious police since 1975.
And certainly we have a long and noble tradition of free expression and free speech in this country.
Labour leader Ed Miliband mocked the chancellor's failure to make any reference to Britain's loss of its Triple A rating with credit agencies during his hour long budget speech.
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Springsteen and his E Street Band opened their Wrecking Ball Tour to enthusiastic reviews in Brisbane, the hometown of Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan, who revealed in a speech last year that The Boss had long been his political inspiration.
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