Later in the Symposium, the match is reestablished by the close parallels between the preamble to Socrates' speech in praise of Erôs and that to his speech before the jury.
McCain described himself, in that speech and in his preamble to our interview, as a "realistic idealist" — a phrase meant to bridge a divide inside his party.
The eleven-member committee made some significant changes to Madison's proposed amendments, including eliminating most of his preamble, adding the phrase "freedom of speech, and of the press", and adding what would become the Tenth Amendment, reserving powers to the states.
I started teaching him various speeches, like the Gettysburg Address and the Preamble to the Constitution.
Yesterday, an afternoon of news-desk preamble found pundits steeling themselves for the constitutionally mandated speech act of a proven liar, and their manic energy sent me fleeing, at 8 P.M., to C-SPAN's "State of the Union Address Preview".
Yet most of their responses were excerpts pulled from their stump speeches — or in Ben Carson's case, a verbatim recitation of the Preamble to the Constitution — rather than the tit-for-tat exchanges that the Republican debates have become known for in this primary race.
Most interesting to me was that while President Obama used "We the People" from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution as a theme, he was really grounding the appeals within his speech upon the "self-evident," inalienable rights that formed the foundation of the Declaration of Independence.
This applies even to a budget speech, when it is natural for the listener to leap over a chancellor's preamble and concentrate on the numbers.
The blunt tone of the president's remarks contrasts starkly with the usually diplomatic White House preamble to state visits but may reflect growing concern in the administration that anti-free-trade speeches by Trump and, to an extent, Democratic rival Bernie Sanders are shaping a negative public perception of US economic performance relative to competitors like China.
