1.   The best quality a graduation speech can have is brevity.

2.   Bush was expected to begin announcing some of those potentially radical changes at a graduation speech before the U.S. Naval Academy last month.

3.   Clinton devoted the graduation speech to a defense of diversity and a plea for tolerance of the swelling wave of immigrants to America.

4.   Excerpts from graduation day speeches follow.

5.   However, good sport that I always try to be, I am willing to give those who are delivering graduation speeches a little advice.

6.   I ask them to give graduation speeches, too.

7.   In his graduation speech at Swift River, Mike recalled the despair that had driven him to run away.

8.   In this season of graduation speeches, photographers have zoomed in on him.

9.   Of course, the down side is we would have fewer graduation speeches.

10.   The heart of the song is a wonderfully whacked fake graduation speech that originally was a column by Chicago Tribune writer Mary Schmich.