"So much of the imagery that you see is the president in the East Room, behind a podium talking at people," Mr. Pfeiffer said.
And I'm sure that when you first arrived at Smith four years ago you never would have imagined that at the other end of that tunnel would be a lady behind a podium talking to you in a funny accent".
"Never in my life, coming on this job in 1983, did I think I'd be standing at the podium talking to everybody as the next police commissioner," said Chief O'Neill, his mother and sister before him in front-row seats.
Not many superstars winning a lifetime achievement award (the Irving Waugh award of excellence) would spend their short time at the podium talking all about the man that the award is named after, but Vince Gill is a class act all the way through.
As the bridge begins, she is shown in her good-girl ego standing by a podium, talking to a group of reporters while waving her hands in the air.
During the protest, cellphones kept going off, and doctors stopped watching the podium to talk to their callers.
He beckoned a couple, Jim and Jeanne Moser, up to the podium to talk about their son, who had died from an overdose.
A range of librarians, from young school volunteers to senior long term workers, took to the podium to talk about their experiences and the communities they helped.
Four days after President Obama took to the White House podium to talk about the outcome of the Trayvon Martin case, many people are still discussing what he said, which isn't surprising.
In Lucas Hnath's "Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney," which opens on Thursday at Soho Rep, the man behind Mickey Mouse steps up to the podium to talk.
