"I haven't really written a speech, because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things, I didn't win, " he began.
Then I heard about a famous speech the same politician gave that year, but I missed the speech on television.
Whenever I give a speech, I start out by asking the audience what they think about the U.S. economy.
Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.
Now, last night, I gave a speech in which I said that we have turned a corner where we can begin to bring back some of our troops.
And you know, he said something in his speech that I thought was - of all the things that he actually said in the speech, that I thought was truly profound was one small line, that these distractions will go on forever in any election.
And I know that a lot of you think that probably most attention was devoted to the speech that I delivered, the keynote speech in Boston, but in fact actually the most challenging problem was what tie to wear.
And as I said in the speech, I think that freedom of religious expression is critical.
Several times each week, I have speech and media training clients who come into my training studio who express themselves in an extraordinarily passionate, confident manner.
As I said in my speech yesterday, I believe there are steps that both sides can take to build confidence and trust, and move a serious negotiation forward.
In the book, I offer ten principles that have guided my success, and three years ago when I gave the commencement speech at USC I chose six lessons to focus on.
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"Because I work in public relations, and because I am aware that some employ a negative image of people with strong 'hillbilly' accents, I tend to modify my speech when I am conducting business, " says Holmes, who lives in London, Kentucky.
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Last Tuesday, I gave a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, where I described that crossroads.
The synopsis of "You Are Not Special" may seem scathing, but I found the speech to be quite uplifting, and I shared it with my son.
So certain was I that I had dozed off at some point in the speech, I hit the rewind on my DVR and listened to the entire speech again.
Because as I said in my speech before Congress, I don't think we're going to compete effectively internationally in terms of who's willing to have the dirtiest air -- because we'll always lose that fight.
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The speech I'd like to remind your listeners of is his victory night speech after the Iowa caucuses.
As I read his speech, which was passed to me by a friend whom I might describe as a Peak Oil fanatic, I noted other changes in the world since that time.
So I read the speech through about 10 times, concentrating very, very closely, and I got in my head the various themes and how they linked to another.
If I give a speech to a student-run college club of women for example, and I tell them my expertise costs nothing, what am I teaching them about themselves?
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As I stated in The Art of Theft speech, I am not aware of any pension, not even the largest, that has adequate procedures in place to prevent and detect fraud related to all the various parties that have a hand in managing the assets.
What I said was, within the context of health care -- I remember that speech pretty well, it was only two days ago -- (laughter) -- I said I welcome ideas that you might provide.
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By analyzing the language in each speech, I created a model that predicted whether a speech came from a winning candidate or a losing one.
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When I am giving a speech to several thousand people, I obviously can't get a debate going, but I can ask the audience to think about the most difficult business challenges they've had, and how they overcame them, and what they could have done better, before giving them suggestions on how to improve.
But when I'm giving a speech to a live audience I always wear a white shirt.
We all, I guess, will take one or two lines of the speech - I mean, he talks about the genius of America is that we can change, that we can improve.
Mr. FRUM: Well, I think that speech of Senator Kerry's was not very nimble.
Last month I gave a speech at a convention for institutional investors held in Miami.
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In 1994, I gave a speech about world affairs and U.S. national security in Louisville, Kentucky.
For example, in my report I rate the speech recognition prediction as partially correct.
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