The phrase "from this podium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific location or position from which someone is speaking or presenting.
Example: "From this podium, I would like to address the important issues facing our community."
Alternatives: "from this platform" or "from this stage".
He went out of his way to make that point from this podium".
Julian Castro, Mayor of San Antonio The unlikely journey that brought me here tonight began many miles from this podium.
"Just as I promised the American people from this podium 11 months ago, we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reform in American history," Mr. Trump said.
MR. RUMSFELD -- Well, first with respect to the targets, I think I've said repeatedly from this podium that there are not a lot of high-value targets.
With the vision of Ariel Sharon guiding my actions from this podium today, I extend my hand in peace to Mahmoud Abbas, the elected president of the Palestinian Authority.
"But instead, once again, an issue of grave global concern has been overshadowed by the bizarre, offensive and attention-grabbing pronouncements by President Ahmedinejad from this podium yesterday," Mr. Clegg said in prepared remarks released in advance by the British Mission to the United Nations.
"The last thing you're going to hear from this podium is someone thinking they know how Afghanistan ought to organize itself," he said.
"I'm not going to get into a negotiating position from here at this podium," Mr. Lockhart said.
When the third round of votes passed unanimously, 83-year-old Prince Rayevsky, who hangs from the same family tree as Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, quietly muttered from the podium, "This is just like the old times," referring in this case not to the days before the revolution but to the days before perestroika.
So let's avoid any risk that someone in a suit might look back from this very podium in a decade or so and say the end of the story began here.
And how is it that the sounds that pour forth from this "mysterious podium dance", as one critic has called it, occasionally reach the sublime, conjuring an artistic experience that nobody who hears it can ever forget?
