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Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks during Conversation with Robin Roberts at Working Families Summit - Jun. 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
MS. ROBERTS: Good to see you. MRS. OBAMA: How are you? MS. ROBERTS: Oh, doing well. MRS. OBAMA: Doesn’t Robin look good? (Applause.) MS. ROBERTS: Oh, thank you. MRS. OBAMA: You look good! MS. ROBERTS: You're just saying it because it's true. (Laughter.) But it has been, all day long here, and that lively group discussion which has preceded us, talking about the role of women in the workplace and the fact that nearly half of the workforce is made up of women. Yet when you see the Fortune 500 […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks in Q&A with Children at Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Apr. 20, 2016
April 20, 2016
MRS. OBAMA: Well, you guys, welcome to the White House again. How many of you have been here before? Oh, gosh. This is old hat for you guys. All right. So let me tell you this, there’s one thing I would say: Don’t say, “Do you remember me?” Because you guys grow every year and you change so much. So who -- what you looked like last year is very different, because I can see some faces I do remember, and you guys have grown, okay? So stop it. Stop […]
Rosa Parks
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with the Academy of Achievement - June 2, 1995
June 2, 1995
ACADEMY: In 1955 you refused to give up your seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Your act inspired the Montgomery bus boycott, the event historians call the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Could you tell us exactly what happened that day? PARKS: I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front. And of course, I was not in the front of the […]
Wilma Mankiller
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview on NPR - Oct. 13, 2008
October 13, 2008
MICHELLE MARTIN: I'm Michelle Martin and you're listening to Tell Me More from NPR News. Coming up: many of us think of lynching as something that belongs to the distant past, but for his latest documentary premiering tonight, veteran journalist Ted Koppel investigates a lynching that took place in 1981. He'll tell us about it in just a few minutes. But first, it's Columbus Day. If you have the day off, you may be catching up on sleep, errands or time with loved ones. Some people mark Columbus Day by […]
Melania Trump
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Anderson Cooper - Oct. 17, 2016
October 17, 2016
COOPER: This has obviously been a difficult time. How are you holding up? How are you doing? MELANIA TRUMP: I'm great. I'm very strong. I'm very confident. And I live my life. I take care of myself and of our son and my husband, and I'm doing great. COOPER: When you -- when you came down that escalator more than a year ago, the day your husband announced the campaign, did you ever expect all this stuff would come out? These allegations would be made that you would have to […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Wall Street Journal's CEO Council - Nov. 15, 2016
November 15, 2016
INTERVIEWER: We all lived through a bit of an earthquake on Tuesday night. A couple days after the election you said—you gave a speech to the AFL-CAO—you said this, “If we’ve learned nothing else from the past two year of electioneering, we should hear the message loud and clear that the American people want Washington to change. It was clear in the Democratic primaries, it was clear in the Republican primaries, it was clear in the campaign, and it was clear on Election Day,” So how do Democrats show that […]
Queen Rania of Jordan
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour - Sep. 22, 2016
September 22, 2016
AMANPOUR: Your Majesty, welcome to the program. RANIA: Thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. AMANPOUR: So you’re here at a time when the refugee crisis is literally spilling out of control. First let me ask you your reaction to a really heinous act that’s been likened to a war crime: the bombing of a convoy of aid trucks into Aleppo, and the aid warehouse 20 civilians dead, the convoy totally mangled. RANIA: It’s absolutely unacceptable, and I think it just shows the depths to what this crisis […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Speeches
Conversation With Oprah Winfrey on the Next Generation of Women - June 14, 2016
June 14, 2016
WINFREY: Hi, everybody! We are here for the United State of Women! OBAMA: Now, I know you all have had a busy, packed, full day -- very inspiring, right? And hopefully, our conversation will live up to the hype. But before we begin, of course, I want to take a moment to just acknowledge what has happened in Orlando -- that even as we gather here today and we talk about the challenges that women face, we have to remember those that we lost in Orlando, as well as those […]
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview for the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project - April 6, 2009
April 6, 2009
This interview by Janet Heininger is part of the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project. It was conducted April 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C. HEININGER: This is an interview on April 6, with Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker. Why don't we start at the beginning? Tell me when you first met Senator Kennedy. What were your initial impressions of him? KASSEBAUM: I first met him when I came to the Senate in 1979, at the swearing in. Everybody sort of says hello. But I really didn't know him very well until […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Meet the Press Interview - Jan. 13, 2008
January 13, 2008
RUSSERT: Senator Clinton, welcome back to Meet the Press. CLINTON: Thanks, Tim. Good to be with you. RUSSERT: When we arrived in South Carolina yesterday this was The State newspaper, and the headlines agree to this. And let me share it with you and our viewers: "Clinton Camp Hits Obama, Attacks 'painful for black voters.' Many in state offended by criticism of Obama and remarks about Martin Luther King." Bob Herbert, in The New York Times, columnist, weighed in this way: "I could also sense how hard the Clinton camp […]