Do you need supporting materials for your speech? Check out Finding Data on the Internet (www.robertniles.com/data/). Created as a handy resource guide for journalists, this site provides links to facts and figures on dozens of topics of national and international interest.

There are a number of think tanks whose Web sites provide excellent resources for speech materials. They include the Brookings Institution (www.brook.edu/), RAND (www.rand.org/), and the Cato Institute (www.cato.org/).