Sentence examples similar to speech gate from inspiring English sources

In her recent speech, Gates spent a few minutes praising the impressive tenacity of the community-college students she has met.

In what was the most searing passage of his speech, Gates said: "Those who think they alone have the right answers, who demonize those who think differently, and who refuse to listen and take other points of view into account -- these leaders are a danger to the American people and to our future".

"Speech-gate," as the blunder is being called in Zimbabwe, suggested the president was too old to run the country.

In his speech, Mr. Gates was even more blunt.

The initiative was previewed in a speech Mr. Gates delivered at Maxwell Air Force Base, in Alabama, home of the Air War College, in April.

In his speech, Mr. Gates announced fresh grants of $200 million to pursue agricultural work, bringing the Gates Foundation's commitment to agriculture to about $2 billion.

In his speech, Mr Gates said that closing loopholes exploited by viruses, worms and hackers was "the largest thing we are doing".

In his speech, Mr. Gates said that while many NATO governments "appreciate the importance of the Afghan mission, European public support for it is weak.

Denis McDonough, one of Mr. Obama's top foreign policy aides, said that a factor in Mr. Obama's decision to ask Mr. Gates, a Republican, to stay on in the job was a speech Mr. Gates gave in 2007, when he called for more money for the State Department and said the United States had to use economic development in fighting threats abroad.

At his CES keynote speech a year ago, Gates spoke of "smart living in the Digital Decade".

It was another in a series of speeches Mr. Gates has given since being called back to government in 2006 that have ranged far beyond his portfolio as defense secretary, including talks on reconciling the pragmatic and ideological roots of American foreign policy, and on the necessity of marshaling diplomatic and economic power along with military force.