Rival Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis distributed a videotape that showed that Biden lifted parts of his speeches from remarks made by Neil Kinnock, then leader of Britain's Labor Party.

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He was a person who took care to leave his speeches and sermons open to extemporaneous remarks.

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His remarks echoed themes of previous speeches, when Erdogan's government launched a series of reforms aimed at relaxing cultural restrictions on Kurds in Turkey.

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Mr Romney gives the impression of going into every interview and every situation, outside certain set-piece speeches, open-minded about which of his remarks will be reported.

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Shakespeare or not, as political speeches go, you don't get much nearer to poetry than how McCain opened and closed his remarks.

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Her speeches have been very well received in all of her travel, and so we would point you to those remarks, I think which we should be able to make available to you and your colleagues as well.

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