But he also spoke up for the role of backbench MPs and the importance of public service.
"Michael probably gets out there a little more maybe from my side of things, he came up to me and spoke to me and I think he's been doing it to most players, " Johnson said.
In front of more than two million people at the open air Mass that formed the centrepiece of the visit, he spoke about new dangers opening up for mankind as technology progressed.
He also spoke of the lead-up to his appointment, during which speculation over the identity of the next archbishop was rife.
He spoke at the event about growing up in a rural valley of southern West Virginia in the 1920s, where there was no running water.
Nnamabia was staring at his yellow-orange rice as he spoke, and when he looked up his eyes were filled with tears, my worldly brother, and I felt a tenderness for him that I would not have been able to describe if I had been asked to.
He stood up for the nation and spoke to us, as the leader people need to speak for them.
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Tired of being a victim, Sanchez, who is Cuban American, spoke up about the prejudice he has experienced throughout his journalism career.
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The announcement came a day after an emotional Chavez discussed his struggle with illness, tearing up at times as he spoke Thursday night at a Mass in western Venezuela.
We saw the power of this approach in his own town hall-style Presidential debates when he walked up to audience members and spoke very directly and personally to them.
And round the fringes members of Act-Up, dressed as giant condoms, who leapt up and blasphemed him whenever he spoke.
When the President last spoke with President Mubarak, he brought these concerns up.
But he also reached out to the Eastern Orthodox Churches and spoke up for Christians persecuted in the Middle East.
Mr. Belling spoke to The Wall Street Journal about how he came up with the idea for Popchips and the lessons he learned from the ad controversy.
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He said that the base officials he spoke with did not expressly state that the ramped-up security was because of last month's Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 200, but all of the additional security requests came within the last two weeks.
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The complaint says that Douglas Vetach, a postal inspector with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, spoke with Zuckerberg, who said he did not come up with the idea for Facebook until September or October 2003, months after he had entered into the contract with Ceglia, and that Zuckerberg had never received the bogus emails Ceglia cites in his lawsuit.
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He spoke about the work going into producing the choir when Alec caught up with him on a rare open day at the Cathedral earlier this week.
He spoke to officials and local politicians who were among the welcoming line-up.
We last spoke in October before he left for Iraq, and when we caught up yesterday, I began by asking him where he's been assigned and what he's doing.
In 1980, after he spoke out against the U.S. Olympic boycott, he picked up his phone and heard someone tell him he would be killed on his way to the finish line in Boston.
When we spoke in October he predicted the swell of special dividends and sped-up payouts that have been announced since Election Day, but he does not see the long-term capital return strategy of companies changing.
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His flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he'd crossed the Atlantic, and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles, which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as Sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed.
When I spoke to him, he sounded upset, and complained that he had been set up by the News of the World.
He spoke about making the relationship between workers and companies more efficient - code for further freeing up the labour market.
He spoke afterwards that it had been a mistake to opt for the low downforce set-up, that he should have gone for the same high-downforce wing as Button.
"He used to intimidate people whenever he needed them, like bringing people out for street marches in support of the lawmaker, " said the neighbor, who spoke on condition he not be named, fearing Rana would send his men to beat him up after having been threatened once before.
Earlier in April, Chavez spoke at a Mass in his home state of Barinas, tearing up at times as he discussed his struggle with illness.
On Saturday, he disappointed Florida Republicans when he spoke for just five minutes at a state party rally after his rivals said each given fired-up speeches that lasted much longer.
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