'We must be mad, literally mad,' Powell declared, voice rising and eyes glowering, 'as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants.
After Riposte won, Lady Cecil declared, voice shaking with emotion: "This is for Henry.
"They are stealing the computers of students," the newspaper Al Nasiriya declared, voicing a populist outrage at Iraq's government that is becoming fairly common.
Switching to different tags, Mr. Roberts eventually created another memorable tag: spare, kinetic letters declaring "Voice of the Ghetto".
"No, it's not unprofessional," he declared, his voice deep and commanding.
"I need your help," he declared, his voice breaking, "and I invite it".
While some in the audience tried to drown her out with applause, and security people proceeded to drag her away, Obama asserted Benjamin's right to "free speech," and declared, "The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to".
"So this is not now a war on terrorism, we need to all be clear about this, this is a war on Muslims!" Mr. Awlaki declared, his voice shaking with anger.
In the midst of narrating a television program about end-of-life decisions, the documentary maker Ray Gosling departed from the prepared script and declared, his voice shaking with emotion, "I killed someone once".
"If I had wanted to be a green shadow," he declared, his voice rising in outrage, "I would have sewn myself to Cathy Rigby's rear end and toured in 'Peter Pan.' " The line killed.
When her teacher there declared her voice "too throaty," Ms. Zhou decided to train in Europe, entering first the École Normale in Paris and later the city's Conservatoire des Russes, which happened to be run by Nikolai Tcherepnin, father of the composer Alexander, whose wife was Chinese and a colleague of Ms. Zhou.
