This weekend, in an interview with ABC and on Twitter, Trump questioned the authorship of the speech, insisted he had made sacrifices for his country comparable to those of the Khans, and complained of being "viciously attacked" by Khizr Khan.
"The scope of the speech," insisted White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "is bigger than where the speech was going to be given or who's the leadership of the country".
Elspeth did inspire the speech, insists Maitland, "not quite the way it appears in the play but I don't think anyone will accuse us of being dishonest".
The Supreme Leader, in the same speech, insisted that all the sanctions be lifted on the same day that the agreement is signed.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, in her opening speech, insisted the charges against the two men would stand.
In response to criticisms of his 1990s activities, Khodorkovsky, in his Oxford Union speech insisted that he, unlike Putin, has drastically changed his outlook on life since the pinnacle of his business career.
Of course, Trump had offered up a profile in cowardice the morning before his big speech, insisting that the buck not stop anywhere near the Oval Office desk on the botched Yemen raid.
Seven months after the Prime Minister gave an emotional speech insisting that the Paralympics had transformed perceptions of the disabled in Britain, a former Paralympian has launched a scathing attack on the Government's approach to sport, insisting that fewer disabled children are competing now than in the early 1980s.
He said that the president's claim that he would protect our nation from "radical Islamic terrorism," were the "clearest three words of his speech," insisting that the administration is not wavering on characterizing the terrorist threat facing the United States as Islamic, despite a different line from newly appointed National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
The universities minister, David Willetts, had opened his morning speech insisting that "the value of higher education is both public and private", even as he went on to remind the audience of 200 senior higher education figures that "legally, all UK universities are in the private sector".
Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, caused confusion this week with a speech insisting on the removal of US and UN sanctions from the moment the agreement is signed.
