He knows what people think about jazz: "They always say, 'Let it die.' Not on my watch," he announces, like Ed Harris refusing to abandon the astronauts in "Apollo 13".
Men love me in Paris, she announced, like this might be a revelation.
We like off-message politicians: they're rare these days (Clegg has been here before, when he announced a liking for the works of Samuel Beckett).
A decade before at the World Future Society he had announced like an emperor, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home".
In that case, he announced, he would like to buy her.
First, in an impressive display of strength, he announced that, like Mr Bush, he would forgo receiving federal electoral money, because it comes with limitations on what a candidate can spend.
In this instance, the mayor had a nine-point plan that he said would create 400,000 jobs in the city by 2015 A fair amount of what he announced sounded like ideas already incorporated in previous programs.
"I like," he announced, "to feel the wind and mist in my face".
"I have just been handed a letter from former President Jimmy Carter," he announced, "which I should like to read".
Richard Moss, Morris's lawyer, said last night that Morris had designated the Yankees as No. 2 among the four teams he announced last week he would like most to play for.
