But that not a licence to say anything at all, even to an audience largely concussed by long echoing speeches in Farsi that preceded him.
Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd.
In his email, Bollinger noted that Columbia must take a stance when its core values are challenged, echoing his speech at the Hamilton Award Dinner last November following Trump's presidential victory.
Her objection to the extension of maternity rights, she says, echoing a speech made this week by the equalities chief, Nicola Brewer, is that it places the parental onus upon mothers.
"Humour is a great vehicle to make social commentary about things that are going on these days," he said, echoing a speech he gave at Toronto last year in which he told documentary film-makers to be more entertaining.
Echoing a speech this week by the former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers, which argued for dealing with "the Russia we have, not the Russia we'd like to have", it argues that western policy-making had become overly optimistic.
Echoing her speech at the Democratic National Convention, the first lady said that the president had responded to questions about his citizenship by refusing to stoop to the level of those questioning it.
His words echoed a speech he delivered last spring on the need for the United States to get off "perpetual war footing".
Echoing recent speeches and addresses by Obama which were believed to pre-empt the State of the Union address, by focusing on poverty and inequality in the US, Blunt called for a "year of action" on the economy.
And Mr. Boehner, in words echoing his first speech as speaker exactly one week ago, said, "Today it is not ceremony, but tragedy that stirs us to renew our commitment to fulfill our oaths of office.
This line uncannily echoed a speech from which Batman movie villain?
