21.   Above all, he has that gift for cutting political speech that can be so handy in a British election.

22.   But a political speech made by a Republican candidate named David Stockman changed all that.

23.   But critics of these laws say they are a sneaky way of restricting political speech.

24.   But enshrining it in the Constitution would be very different from talking about it in political speeches.

25.   But he also wrote critically about the emptiness of all political speech.

26.   But it was close enough to the truth, scholars and political speech writers agree, that it met the standards of what is fair in political oratory.

27.   But in an election year, the political speeches always get more attention here.

28.   But no one knows whether he was delivering a serious political speech the other night or just kind of thinking out loud.

29.   But several recent court rulings said that the First Amendment prohibited many of the new efforts because they curtailed political speech.

30.   But opponents contend the proposed restrictions would unconstitutionally stifle political speech.