Let them dredge up his impassioned address of 12 years ago, when Bill Clinton was nominated, in which Mr. Miller brought the house down when he declared of the current president's father, "George Bush just doesn't get it."

In an impassioned address to Congress last month, Mr. Clinton said efforts to strengthen the economy would fail unless Congress took bold steps to revamp the health-care system "this year - not next year, not five years from now, but this year."

A gifted orator, in 1766 he delivered an impassioned address in English "on liberty," or as others would recall it, on the meaning of being "a patriot," at Harvard's commencement upon receiving his Masters.

In one impassioned address by Ms. Bolton before the commission a few months ago, "the mayor said, 'I'm going to have you arrested and taken out of here,' " Ms. Bolton said.

Impassioned Speech by Tutu The Anglican Archbishop, Desmond M. Tutu, in one of his most impassioned addresses, told the same meeting that it was immoral to obey laws that were themselves immoral and un-Christian.

During his impassioned address, he criticized the United Nations' inability to confront the "brutal policy of apartheid" in South Africa, asking "Can the United Nations do nothing to stop this?"

Sarkozy delivered an impassioned address in which he lambasted Iran for defying the UN over its nuclear programme.

It is noted for a particularly impassioned address from Peter Mandelson given on Monday 28 September in which he claimed that Labour was in "the fight of our lives" as the forthcoming general election approached.

Mounting the podium after Mayor Perry, Fulani delivered an impassioned address touching briefly on political corruption, police brutality, Haiti, capital punishment and David Duke.

But during an impassioned address before the vote on Thursday, he reminded his fellow senators that there were other options to influence the administration's Iraq policy.