Have you noticed this?

Just a little experiment of mine.

"Religiosity is rising, especially among the middle class."

"A sense of identification is increasing."

"As blog fodder he is nearly optimized: always up to something, rarely apologizing, usually dressed in a mockable, on-brand way."

"He takes bait but slings truths; he has an ego but he has a point; he looks all wrong when he’s not wearing a hat."

"What's the spot on her tongue?"

Oh, my... yikes...

Who's saying this and what and whom is he saying it about?

"We talk about it, and a number of people have talked about it, including his family. And he knows that it’s a problem. And the first part of solving the problem is recognizing that it exists."

Answer here.

Let's see... a Clinton joke about head...

... must the jokes write themselves?

"It’s a very exciting idea. In every generation, it’s males creating males. Eventually the population runs out of females, and you’re done."

Do it!

George W. Bush, Michael Jackson, Jesus, Barack Obama, Hitler, Britney Spears, The Undertaker, Roger Federer, Kane, and Beyonce.

Treat that like a "Jeopardy!" answer. What's the question?

(Here.)

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."

"I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land."

"Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!"

You don't need to have the speaker identified. The style is unmistakable.

"So you have to go back to issue No. 1. How much control is too much control?"

Guess the context. Answer here.

"It sucks. It sucks that this has to happen to my daughter in 6th grade. It sucks that it's only the beginning."

"It sucks that she has to learn about her body in the context of men noticing it. I want her to be a strong girl, teen and woman. And I feel helpless. It's only going to get worse, and she needs to be ready. She needs to be ready so she can spot it and move past it. She needs to be ready, so she doesn’t believe what they say and can choose to disagree...."

"So it’s okay to have socialism, but it can’t be international socialism, it has to be socialism in one nation."

"A sort of national socialism, I guess."

"Imagine not knowing that the sun is a star, or that there’s a solar system."

"Imagine not knowing what a human cell is, or what menstruation is, or, until you’re 18 and three weeks away from your arranged marriage, what sex is and how it works. Imagine never asking for a puppy growing up, because dogs bark, and that means they are beasts and demons. Imagine you have been told for your entire life that in the secular world, people mainly rape, pillage and murder, that it’s all a lawless meaningless free-for-all, and you are safe only in your little enclave, where these things do not happen."

"I don't know why the media have been ignoring this candidate who so clearly..."

"... has his finger on the pulse of the issues facing the American people."

"How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery.

"It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors."

"Show me a party to which women are invited but that they overwhelmingly choose to avoid..."

"... and I'll show you a party to which I'd ask you to remember not to invite me."

Guess what the "party" is before clicking through.

"The time has come to think seriously about whether we have a national character or not."

"Today, unfortunately, the atmosphere is that if you go to anybody for work, that person will immediately ask, ‘What is in this for me?’ When he learns that there is nothing for him, he will say, ‘Why should I?’ We have to break out of this cycle of ‘what is in this for me’ and ‘why should I.’ We need to shine our national character."

Consider who might be saying this before clicking here.

If you have to ask...

... the answer is "no."

"These days the holy grail is an octopus or a dragon. I only know of three octopuses being found..."

"... and one was by me, in a cave in Challaborough, Devon. It's quite competitive. If you heard that your neighbour had found a green dragon, you'd want to go out and find one yourself."