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Donna Edwards
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign Announcement: Making Progress Work - March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015
EDWARDS: Eight years ago, developers were set to block my neighborhood's access to the Potomac shoreline. I was a single mom, putting my son through school, working full-time, paying back student loans, and struggling to make ends meet. The last thing I had time for was a political fight, but I knew if I didn't take a stand the modest, middle-class lives my neighbors and I were living might be destroyed forever. So we fought and we won. And today National Harbor supports over a thousand union jobs. And we […]
Allyson Schwartz
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
One Pennsylvania - Sept. 4, 2013
September 4, 2013
Pennsylvania has a great history in being an energy producer, and natural gas is a part of the economic growth of Pennsylvania. It is so important to Pennsylvania, so important to our future as a state. I'm proposing a new vision for Pennsylvania and a new vision for the Marcellus Shale gas. We ought to be able to share in the wealth as well and put that wealth to work for Pennsylvanians, to grow the economy, not only in the energy sector but more broadly. So I'm proposing what is […]
Alison Lundergan Grimes
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 26, 2016
July 26, 2016
Good evening, my fellow Americans. I'm Alison Lundergan Grimes, the youngest female secretary of state in the nation! I'm honored to join you tonight representing not only the South but the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. I’ve known Hillary Clinton the majority of my life, more than 20 years – as First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, mentor, and friend. Six months from now, friends, I hope we all know her by another name: Madam President. I met Hillary while greeting her and President Clinton with my four sisters on the […]
Barbara Mikulski
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 26, 2016
July 26, 2016
Hello, Democrats and sister Democrats, and a special hello to the state of Maryland. Our nation was born here in Philadelphia 240 years ago. Our Founding Fathers gave us a great start. But it was the Founding Mothers who said, “Do not forget the ladies or we will foment our own revolution!” They started the job, but we’re going to keep it going. Yes, we do break barriers. I broke a barrier when I became the first Democratic woman elected in the Senate in her own right, and the first […]
Barbara Mikulski
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Democratic Women of the Senate at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 28, 2016
July 28, 2016
Sen. Barbara Mikulski In 1987, I was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. Yes, the history of women in the Senate is that short—it's about 4'11". Though I was the first, I didn't want to be the only. I lit one candle, but I wanted more women, so we could light a torch, and lighten the load on all of you. As our ranks have grown, I've had the privilege of mentoring so many talented women. And you know what? In 2000, I got […]
Patty Murray
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Democratic Women of the Senate at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 28, 2016
July 28, 2016
Sen. Barbara Mikulski In 1987, I was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. Yes, the history of women in the Senate is that short—it's about 4'11". Though I was the first, I didn't want to be the only. I lit one candle, but I wanted more women, so we could light a torch, and lighten the load on all of you. As our ranks have grown, I've had the privilege of mentoring so many talented women. And you know what? In 2000, I got […]
Eleanor Holmes Norton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 27, 2016
July 27, 2016
Fellow Americans, fellow delegates — I am privileged to represent the almost 700,000 American citizens, growing by 1,000 every month, in your nation’s capital. We are so proud of our city, with a budget larger than that of 13 states, that we want to become the 51st state of the United States! We are home to our most powerful institutions, yet we have been denied our power as American citizens. The power we seek is ordinary, not lofty. It is the democratic power of equal citizenship. It is the power […]
Sheila Jackson Lee
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 27, 2016
July 27, 2016
Hello Democrats! Hello Texas! I’m a breast cancer survivor, and I know that there are many in this room, who faced what I faced — who fought the fear by His grace and mercy, and survived. Democrats, we must fight the Republican nominees of fear, and unite behind Hillary Clinton — the candidate who fights for us. I came here from Houston, a city with a great new mayor and a place where people of all races and sexual orientations and religions are respected. We have a strong legacy: Mickey […]
Michelle Lujan Grisham
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 27, 2016
July 27, 2016
Hello! We have a historic opportunity to elect a leader who is ready to tackle all of the issues we face as a nation — both as commander-in-chief and as a mother and grandmother who understands the challenges of families. We, as a nation, are understandably anxious about the volatility around the world. I know I want an experienced and level-headed president who knows what it’s like to make decisions in the White House Situation Room. And I trust Hillary Clinton to make us safe. I also look forward to […]
Madeleine K Albright
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention - July 26, 2016
July 26, 2016
My fellow Americans, good evening. Sixty-eight years ago, during a time of grave danger, Democrats gathered in Philadelphia to nominate a tough, smart, and experienced Presidential candidate. At the time I was a child in Europe, where I lived in fear because my native Czechoslovakia had been taken over by Communists. But within a few months, my family found refuge in America—and that candidate, Harry Truman, became my first American President. Tonight in Philadelphia, we nominated someone with Truman's fighting spirit to be our next President—Hillary Clinton. And this fall, […]