He called it "a big speech, an important speech," that would cover "a lot of territory," adding: "We have a lot of things to discuss and we'll be discussing them, and I hope you enjoy it".
Over the weekend at the Community of Democracies conference in Krakow, Poland, Secretary of State Clinton made an important speech that set out in unambiguous terms the U.S. government's support for independent civil society.
Universities have a few values more important than speech that is merely controversial: for example, speech that is well considered and speech that is well informed.
Serious or formal occasions with important guests will require speeches that are similarly formal, while more light-hearted affairs may call for a less serious tone.
But one Republican close to Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the president would give "an important speech" but that a joint appearance was "highly unlikely".
"It's not every speech, introduction or article I've written, but it's all the speeches that seemed important, all the articles I was still proud of, all the introductions that seemed to be about something bigger than just telling people about the book or author they were going to read," Gaiman wrote.
"Structural change is necessary," Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in an important speech last month that discussed many of these themes.
Earlier today, Jeremy Stein, a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, gave an important speech suggesting that some people within America's central bank are giving these ideas serious consideration.
And I mean A LOT. (It is a meeting of many of the world's most influential politicians after all!) So, instead of writing a column attempting to analyze all that rhetoric, I have created a series of word clouds for nine of the most important, hyped, and just plain interesting speeches that have occurred so far during the General Assembly.
For plays, you may want to note any speeches that seem particularly important, such as Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech or the "attention must be paid" speech from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
