Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Speaking of the future himself, Hobsbawm largely confines himself to predicting continued turmoil: " The world of the third millennium will therefore almost certainly continue to be one of violent politics and violent political changes.

Speaking at the Institute of Civil Engineers in June 2008, he joked that if he had remained in politics, he would have been " knocked down in the rush " as his former foes on the nuclear issue — including the likes of Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett — adopted the same position.

After retiring from politics, Kernot wrote a " full and frank " biography called Speaking for Myself, which was published in 2002.

Speaking before a gathering of Lebanese bishops in November 1989, the papal nuncio in Lebanon, Pablo Puente, condemned " the interference of clerical persons and institutions in politics without being officially mandated to by the church hierarchy ... an end must be put to political visits and declarations that have no clear Church mandate.

Extemporaneous Speaking, also known as extemp, is a competitive event popular in United States high schools and colleges, in which students speak persuasively or informatively about current events and politics.

Speaking about his political views, Rasmussen said, " I was brought up loosely as a Republican, but at our family dinner table we talked about the important politics of the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.

Speaking against her became treason in AD 20, and in AD 24 he granted his mother a theatre seat among the Vestal Virgins.

Speaking in 1986, Resnais said that he did not make a separation between cinema and theatre and refused to make enemies of them.

Her theatre credits include :" Speaking in tongues " for the State theatre of South Australia ( 2011 ); " Stockholm " for The Sydney Theatre Company ( 2010 );" Saturn's Return " For the Sydney Theatre Company ( 2010 ); Othello for the Bell Shakespeare Company ( 2007 ); The Shape of Things for the Sydney Theatre Company ( STC ) co-starring Brendan Cowell ( Jan 2003 ); The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union at Belvoir St. Theatre ( Feb – Mar 2002 ); playing the junkie muse to Robyn Nevin's artist in the STC production of Old Masters ( Oct – Nov 2001 ); The Recruit ( Jan 2000 ) also featuring John Howard, Christopher Stollery, Conrad Coleby, Genevieve Lemon, Drew Forsythe, and Brendan Cowell ; and her breakthrough performance in La Dispute ( May 2000 ) also starring Rose Byrne, David Field, Rhondda Findleton and Justine Saunders.

Simm returned to the west end stage in Autumn of 2009 to critical acclaim, starring opposite Ian Hart, Lucy Cohu and Kerry Fox in the Andrew Bovell play Speaking in Tongues, at the Duke of York's theatre.

His theatre acting work includes Peter Dews ' production of As You Like It, Same Time Next Year ( Prince of Wales Theatre ), Macbeth ( RSC ), Rocky Horror Show ( as the Narrator ), The Spider's Web ( UK Tour for Ian Dickens ), Romeo and Juliet ( UK Tour with Sean Maguire ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( English Speaking Theatre, Frankfurt ) and many pantomimes.

As the 1960s dawned he made a strong return to the theatre, occupying the dual role of actor / director in numerous West End productions including a revival of the Noël Coward work Present Laughter at the Queen's Theatre ( 1965 ) and Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking ( 1967 ) at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Reunion, a radio play, was produced by John Juliani in 1984 for CBC " Saturday Stereo Theatre "; Gregory Sinclair produced The Collaborators for CBC's " Speaking Volumes " in 1989 ; Kathleen Flaherty produced Within the Copper Mountain ( 1997 ), History 605 ( 1998 ), The Masked Man in Warsaw ( 1999 ), Edith Stein: Whose Saint Was She?

Speaking for Google, Brin stated during an interview, " One of the reasons I am glad we are making this move in China is that the China situation was really emboldening other countries to try and implement their own firewalls.

* Speaking of History Podcast interview with Tom Wheeler, author of Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails-How Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War

* American Public Media Speaking of Faith interview of Ernie LaPointe entitled " Tatanaka Iyotake: Reimagining Sitting Bull "

" Speaking of the same encounter in a 2002 interview, Edward said, " She told me I would one day become internationally known for my psychic abilities through lectures, books, radio and TV.

Speaking frequently on the TV circuit, McClellan told Keith Olbermann in an interview on June 9, 2008, regarding the Iraq War planning: " I don't think there was a conspiracy theory there, some conspiracy to deliberately mislead.

* Booknotes interview with Hentoff on Speaking Freely: A Memoir, October 19, 1997.

Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview that aired on March 7, 2010, Plummer appeared slightly irritated that it had taken so long to receive a personal Academy Award nomination, saying, " Well, I said it's about time!

Speaking of Nolte in a 2003 interview, Lipstadt stated:

" Speaking in a 2005 radio interview with Brooke Gladstone, after receiving the Pulitzer Prize, Neil described the symbiotic relationship between the automobile industry and its critics:

963, Britain's first radio station for women, with Franks herself hosting a twice-weekly interview show entitled ' Frankly Speaking '.

" Speaking to Agence France-Presse in an interview, Adada argued that he had been successful in his mission because massacres no were no longer occurring: " I would like to be judged, for UNAMID to be judged, on the number of deaths in Darfur.

Speaking about the film, he said in an interview with Bollywood Hungama :" MNIK is an unusual Bollywood film, if at all, and doesn't have those quintessential pre-requisite elements that any Bollywood film has (...) All I can say is that MNIK is going to open windows and doors to many people who have stories to tell and are shy to put their story on the celluloid " Upon release, the film was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews and strong box office reports ; My Name is Khan was the highest-grossing Bollywood film overseas at the time, grosseing over 2 billion worldwide.

Speaking retrospectively in a 2002 interview, Perry recalled " we went out on tour and most people saw us as a swing band because of the success of Zoot Suit Riot ... we felt this tension to be something we weren't ".

*" Obama's Faith-Based Office " ( video | audio ), Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett ( May 21, 2009 )-a public radio interview with Joshua DuBois

Speaking to John O ' Regan in an interview reproduced in Works 14: Tony O ' Malley he explained:

Speaking about the controversy in a 2007 interview, songwriter Jimmy Webb said, " Those lyrics were all very real to me ; there was nothing psychedelic about it to me.

The release also contains a booklet with excerpts from the August 1985 Roeg-Johnson interview called " Relatively Speaking " in the 1985 Monthly Film Bulletin, and an essay by film critic Chuck Stephens.

Speaking about his quartet to noted UK jazz / soul writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul, in a rare music-themed interview prior to their performance at the HSBC Cheltenham Jazz Festival in May 2008, Salmon stated:

Speaking in relation to the talks with Rome in an interview in July 2009, Fellay said of the significance of the Second Vatican Council that: "' We will not make any compromise on the Council.

* Speaking of History Podcast interview with Erin Bishop-Director of Education for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

* Speaking of Faith, interview with Krista Tippett

Speaking of Israel in an interview, Berman commented of anti-Zionism that its " true origin ... is anti-Semitism, the assumption that the Jews are the center of the world and therefore the center of the world's evil.

Speaking in a television interview on 22 November 2002, Farah said that his new party was not part of the opposition, expressing support for the government and stating that the PPSD planned to ally with the RPP.

* Fast Speaking Woman and Other Chants, City Lights, 1975 ( revised edition, 1978 ).

* Also performed in Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara ( 1978 ), with a recording of the poem Fast Speaking Woman included on the sound track.

Speaking recently in Miami, Governor Rockefeller said that `` to assure the sufficiency of our own weapons in the face of the recent Soviet tests, we are now clearly compelled to conduct our own nuclear tests ''.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

Speaking of the present status of civil defense in the city, Mr. Hawksley said he would be willing to bet that not more than one person in a hundred would know what to do or where to go in the event of an enemy attack.

Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a " declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery.

Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

" Speaking of Milt Brown and himself working with songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, and others, and songs he'd learned from his father, he said that " We'd pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Dale Campbell-Savours, MP, said,

Speaking at 30th anniversary celebrations on 26 July 2006, Commander Bradley Bower said that the greatest challenge facing the navy of a maritime country like Fiji was to maintain sovereignty and the maritime environment, to acquire, restore, and replace equipment, and to train officers to keep pace with changing situations.

Speaking at the 2007 budget session, Peter Caruana, the Chief Minister said " The scale of Gibraltar's economic success makes it one of the most affluent communities in the entire world.

Speaking from a platform erected on the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg for an audience of 450, 000, Kennedy said,

" Speaking at the opening of the Michael Reagan Center in Spring, Texas, October 7, 2005, Michael said, " At 8 years old, I thought I was going to hell.

Speaking about the issue she said: " Elephants are one of my favourite animals and I love them.

Speaking before a National Assembly session, Bagoudou said that the 42. 2 billion CFA francs spent on medical costs for road accident victims accounted for around 25 % of the 2008 budget of the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health.

Speaking from a clinic in the western city of Cali, Mr Lizcano said that when soldiers saw him screaming from across a jungle river, they thought he was drunk and ignored him.

Speaking at a National Party conference following the news of Biko's death then-minister of police, Jimmy Kruger said, " I am not glad and I am not sorry about Mr. Biko.

Speaking softly, Hanson said that the hijackers had commandeered the cockpit, that a flight attendant had been stabbed, and possibly someone else in the front of the aircraft had been killed.

Speaking with Himmler and Heydrich on 25 October, Hitler said, " Let no one say to me we cannot send them into the swamp.

Speaking of the film, he said:

Speaking of those who counseled compassion to the " culprits " he said: " They want them to be treated with oil, soap and caresses.

Speaking the week after filming his last episode of The West Wing, he said, " I'm very serious about it.

Speaking before a crowd at the Rostra, Tiberius said, " The wild beasts that roam over Italy have their dens, each has a place of repose and refuge.

Speaking at the London School of Economics on 28 February 2006, he said: " The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.

" Speaking about the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain, she said: " The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with.