Lord Coe's voice cracked either through exhaustion or emotion as he declared "When our time came, Britain, we did it right, thank you!" His praise for the volunteers at the Games brought a speech-stopping ovation.
Government business can avoid being filibustered if a motion of "cloture" is called, bringing a speech to an end.
Ian Birrell, a former speechwriter for Cameron, said the chief whip Michael Gove brought forward a speech to the new group to show that he understood these concerns.
"We brought in a speech therapist and psychologist to help him – and steered him towards pupils in class who could point him in the right direction.
Celebrations in Montreal the next day brought a rousing pro-separatist speech from Francis Wurtz, an official of France's Communist Party.
The satirical five-minute speech brought a crowd to the usually empty room where the subcommittee was meeting to consider efforts to give farm workers who are in the US illegally a path to citizenship.
The anniversary of his speech has brought a smattering of attention, including his own article in The Atlantic and a CBS "Sunday Morning" profile next week.
Even Obama's Thursday acceptance speech, which brought a little less pep to the rally than some had hoped, did incredibly well in social media.
Though "Boyhood" is not an explicitly political film, the speech instantly brought a political dimension to the rueful single mother Arquette spent twelve years playing.
Reconciliation was central to the one passage in the speech that brought a hush over the otherwise squirming high school students.
The hedonistic Britpop era brought a couple of memorable acceptance speeches, including Robbie Williams challenging Liam Gallagherto a fight, but the most notorious event (Jarvis Cocker mooning Michael Jackson) went unseen.
