All in all, this was not a day on which the hot political oratory over the budget showed any sign of abating.

He goes back to what he knows, the tradition of southern political oratory that he grew up with.

There was a time when political campaigns and political oratory would draw thousands of people, even deep in the countryside.

Skeptics dismissed the speech as political oratory with no firm commitment of dollars.

That struck many as good political oratory, good enough, perhaps, to tip the balance on the vote.

A flood of political oratory washed away his nomination before he had a hearing.

Each possesses enough truth to meet the vague, unwritten standards for what is fair in political oratory.

Such assessments fly in the face of conventional political oratory.

So can we skip the next 25 weeks of political oratory and analysis?

But two strange things happened to Horace's phrase on its way to political oratory.