Sentence examples for would be speaker from inspiring English sources

That would be Speaker John Boehner.

"I don't quite honestly think that Speaker Boehner would be speaker if that happens," Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, told Fox News recently.

But they also seemed an exercise in lowering expectations that this man who would be speaker (or president) would deliver for his party this time.

Under Mr. McGreevey's plan, Mr. Sires would be speaker; Assemblyman Joseph J. Roberts Jr., the state party chairman, would be majority leader; Assemblyman Donald Tucker of Newark would be speaker pro tem; and Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck would be the conference leader.

Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the Democrat who would be speaker, has relentlessly skewered Republicans, and at a caucus meeting last month even painted his face blue, like Mel Gibson in "Braveheart," to gird his colleagues for battle.

Under Mr. McGreevey's proposal, Mr. Sires would be speaker and Mr. Roberts would be majority leader; that would keep the speakership in Hudson County while giving a large role to the coalition of South Jersey Democrats that Mr. Roberts represents.

A Facebook event page said there would be "speakers representing our diverse community".

"I never thought I'd be speaker," said Ryan, who hails from Janesville, Wisconsin, and was his party's vice presidential nominee in 2012.

His Republican challenger, Austin Scott, retorted that the only way to guarantee that Ms. Pelosi would not be speaker would be to vote Mr. Marshall out.

But Mr. Boehner cannot simply tune them out; he would not be speaker without them, and many lawmakers in his own caucus are trying to torpedo any talk of compromise.

PETER J. BOYER: I think that Cantor would like to be Speaker of the House, and may well realize that ambition.