A latter-day parse leaves the sentence looking slightly off surely, to preserve the ascent in importance, "Democrat" should precede "American"—but it lives in my memory as the single most resonant piece of Kennedy oratory, beyond the syllogism of the missile-crisis speech or the empathetic exercise proposed in the civil-rights address.
Although he invoked the inaugural image of Gov. Hugh L. Carey, who came into office in 1975 in the midst of the city's most severe fiscal crisis, this speech did not approach the alarming tenor of Mr. Carey's famous declaration that "Now the times of plenty, the days of wine and roses, are over," offered in his first State of the State message.
But perhaps nowhere is this quality of Carter as a dissonant voice more evident than in his July 15 , 1979 "Crisis of Confidence" speech, a speech singular among twentieth-century presidential addresses.
Rather than posit that the Paris attacks are the moment of crisis in free speech — as so many commentators have done — it is necessary to understand that free speech and other expressions of liberté are already in crisis in Western societies; the crisis was not precipitated by three deranged gunmen.
In lieu of a more traditionally rousing second-act climax, everyone watches Jimmy Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech.
Compare the bearing of Mr. Carter in the A.P. video with the man who delivered the "crisis of confidence" speech 10 months later.
The actor Benedict Cumberbatch has shown his growing frustration over the migration crisis during a speech after his Hamlet performance – reportedly saying "fuck the politicians".
"Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption," Jimmy Carter declared in 1979 in his "crisis of confidence" speech.
Last year he set out his view on Fifa's corruption crisis with a speech addressed to "Dear Sepp… rest assured, the Asian football family stands firmly behind you".
The prime minister had planned — then canceled, amid the Algerian crisis — a landmark speech in Amsterdam on Friday in which he was to have outlined his plan to negotiate a much sparer role for Britain in the European bloc.
