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Before his son was sworn in, Mario Cuomo the world-famous speech-maker, says his best advice on an inaugural speech was "be sure to say nice things about your father and mother."
Dan Collins: Mario Cuomo: New York's Proud Papa Dan Collins 2011
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And he's had a sharper tone against Bachmann, painting his home state rival and tea-party favorite as an inexperienced speech-maker in an effort to cast himself as the seasoned executive ready to lead the party and beat Obama.
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Before his son was sworn in, Mario Cuomo the world-famous speech-maker, says his best advice on an inaugural speech was "be sure to say nice things about your father and mother."
Dan Collins: Mario Cuomo: New York's Proud Papa Dan Collins 2011
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Ironically, having migrated from the south, he has become a political activist in New York, acquiring a "name" as a speech-maker.
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It was not enough that she dismissed a smart, equally well-educated Barack Obama as just a "speech-maker".
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He gave up his Obama moment as a convention speech-maker to tend to Gustav back home.
Bobby Jindal: the Governor McCain Should Have Picked : Laura Parker Parker, Laura 2008
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He gave up his Obama moment as a convention speech-maker to tend to Gustav back home.
Hurricane Gustav: Politics and Power Parker, Laura 2008
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He is simply the best political speaker (but not the best formal speech-maker), at a minimum, since they invented television.
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Lord Nottingham, [10] a famous Tory and speech-maker, is gone over to the Whig side: they toast him daily, and Lord Wharton says, It is Dismal (so they call him from his looks) will save England at last.
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SLATER: You know, he is so much better a speech-maker than he was, I remember, two and three and four years ago.
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