91.   He stood silently at the podium until speakers were finished and then invariably offered a personal response or anecdote, seeking to connect with the shareholder.

92.   House rules do not require a speaker to be a member of Congress.

93.   His ideas popping half-baked into televised musings, the House speaker is a flailing barroom brawler, all windmills and roundhouses.

94.   I wanted to be speaker because the legislative process interested me, and was the kind of challenge I enjoyed.

95.   I operate from the assumption that the speaker is smart.

96.   If being in the limelight counts for anything, the new speaker has been a terrific press agent.

97.   If, for example, one of the four white men running for mayor wins, political experts predict that the speaker will not be white.

98.   In a Democratic conference dominated by New York City members, the speaker is always someone from the city, like Silver, of Manhattan.

99.   In addition, the speaker is under contract with the same publisher, HarperCollins, to publish a second book.

100.   In fairness, you can hardly expect one budget-price speaker to be all things to all listeners.