To see where Mr Blair believes the blame for Britain's failures really lies, it is necessary to forget the orator on the telly and read the text of the speech.
It was her husband who was the orator.
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Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
After-dinner speaking is one way--requests have flooded in for the great orator to grace the ears of motivation-hungry investment bankers and chief executives.
Those who recall the charismatic orator who built the National Union of Mineworkers into a major political force might not recognize the cautious business leader his associates now describe: "He is surprisingly quiet and non-confrontational on boards, " said the person who has done business with Shanduka.
Dictated to a secretary using a noiseless portable black Remington typewriter constructed so the keyboard was less distracting to the master-orator one exhibited in the first glass case of the show Churchill's speeches were prepared for delivery in verse form.
The author and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins described him as the "finest orator of our time" and a "valiant fighter against all tyrants including God".
And that's something that both Frederick Douglass, as the first famous black orator, and King, as another, were fond of doing as well.
President Obama has been a brilliant orator from the beginning.
The glamorous, fiery orator who helped lead Ukraine's revolt against a corrupt election in 2004, was convicted of criminally exceeding her powers when she agreed a gas deal with Russia, seen to have disadvantaged Ukraine.
It was hard not to measure him against his rival, the haughty Benazir Bhutto, a blazing orator who drew massive crowds wherever she appeared and is, after all, the daughter of Pakistan's best-loved prime minister.
That would mean, to quote a great orator, that the federal government has become "some separate, sinister entity" in which the leaders we entrust with authority cannot be held accountable for its abuse.
The most prescient was Frederick Douglass, the vibrant ex-slave turned abolitionist orator.
Mr Cohn-Bendit is an old pro, a compelling orator and a brilliant manipulator of the media.
By contrast, Americans were told that Obama was a great orator, a brilliant intellect, the harbinger of a post-racial America, a master facilitator of bipartisanship, and a global statesman for the new century.
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He is neither a great orator nor a charismatic leader who can move the masses with the wave of a hand.
Say what you will about Ron Paul as a political operator or orator, he offered more uplifting words on the House floor yesterday than many of our current statesmen can muster.
Mr White concedes that Long was an inspiring orator and that he brought about some real improvements in the lives of many Louisianans.
He quickly gained a reputation in Parliament as a fiery and passionate left-wing orator, as well as a bitterly partisan opponent of the Conservatives, both traits he retains to this day.
Graham says despite Obama's reputation as a great orator, his debate performances have not lived up to the standards of his speeches - and that at times the president can be awkward and long-winded in his debate answers.
Whatever Senator Barack Obama's dazzling abilities as an orator and campaigner are, he has demonstrated no understanding of the elemental importance of free enterprise or of the fundamental role of risk-taking in bringing about economic progress.
Despite his faulty English, the paunchy, shaven-headed 30-year-old is a brilliant orator.
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He was known chiefly as a clear thinker and a great orator, with a passion for justice and a determination to heal the deep divisions of our land.
Jocular in public, though no great orator, he seems to have no qualms about letting North Koreans gossip about the mystery woman at his side.
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Mr Barghouti, a fiery orator from Mr Arafat's Fatah faction, who had become one of the most prominent figures in the two-year-old intifada, or uprising, was arrested on April 15th.
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