The House has very few great orators today and, save for fixed - points such as the Budget, consideration of committing troops to war and those very rare debates, unwhipped, when matters of great moral importance are discussed, the game has moved away from the Chamber. (totalpolitics.com)
On Oct. 3, at a university in Denver, a man famous for his luxurious hair and wooden personality destroyed one of the great orators of our time in a one - on - one debate. (canadianbusiness.com)
Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist. (firstthings.com)