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Sheila Jackson Lee
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
International Women's Day Women's Freedom Forum - March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015
Thank you so very much. Thank you. What a very dynamic group and how important a time we are in and how much I appreciate the women that are here and the gathering of this effort, particularly with the Women’s Freedom Forum and of course the Iranian-American Society of Texas, of whom, of which I’ve had great relationships and great friendship and I ask that you give both the forum and the Iranian Society of Texas, Freedom Society, an amazing applause. Just a rousing applause. [Applause] Certainly Patti Solis Doyle […]
Brenda Lawrence
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
International Women's Day Women's Freedom Forum - March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015
And now we're happy to have a visitor today, one of our supporters, Representative Brenda Lawrence from Michigan who is in her first term as a congresswoman, and she comes to Washington after three terms as the mayor of Southfield, Michigan, the first woman and first African-American male at that great city. So thank you for joining us today.[applause] It is an honor to be with you today and it’s an honor to be here on a common goal and mission. Your theme, “Women’s Freedom Forum,” reading the statistics, seeing […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
CPAC - February 18, 2010
February 18, 2010
So I- I'm not going to take up much of your time, but I think it's time as we move to new generations of leadership, getting rid of folks like me for example, that- that we hear from another generation of Cheneys who … generation from a family that really has a lot to say, a lot to add, and who, like her parents, is one of us. Liz. [applause] Thank you so much. It is such an honor to be here. It's an honor to be introduced by Dave […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women's Role in Peace and Politics - Mar. 31, 2017
March 31, 2017
Good morning! [applause] Thank you! Thank you so much. [applause] Thank you. [crowd chanting "Hillary"] Thank you. Wow, let's do that again. [laughter] [applause] This warm, warm welcome is one of the many reasons that I always appreciate coming to this campus, to this great university. And I am so pleased to have a chance to talk with you today about an issue that, as President DeGioia said, is one that has really provided the impetus for a lot of the work that is being done here at the university, […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
At the Women in Business Conference - Mar. 28, 2017
March 28, 2017
Hello! Thank you, thank you all so much. It is great to be back in San Francisco, a place that has a big big spot in my heart and to be able to speak with all of you this afternoon. Please be seated and you can jump up and down it’s been a wonderful but long day I hear. I want to thank Anne not just for her kind introduction but for exemplifying the kind of creative entrepreneurial leadership that she has demonstrated and that so many of you are […]
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at ‘Out of the Blue’ launch for Heads Together - Mar. 23, 2017
March 23, 2017
Before I begin, I know you would all want to join me in sending our thoughts and prayers to all those sadly affected by yesterday’s terrible attack in Westminster. We will be thinking of all the families, as we discuss the important issues we're here to talk about. I would like to thank Best Beginnings for inviting me here to introduce the 'Out of The Blue' series. This collection of films highlights how vital it is to be open about our mental health especially in the early years of parenthood. […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Campaign Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote Address at 2008 Democratic National Convention - Aug. 25, 2008
August 25, 2008
As you might imagine, for Barack, running for president is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother, Craig. I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I’ve felt his presence in every grace-filled moment of my life. At six-foot-six, I’ve often felt like Craig was looking down on me too, literally. But the truth is, both when we were kids and today, he wasn’t looking […]
Gro Brundtland
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Health, dignity and human rights - June 12, 2003
June 12, 2003
Secretary-General, Distinguished Ministers, Friends and colleagues, You have chosen a critically important theme for your meeting: health, dignity and human rights. Three sets of ideas that are inextricably linked, and that are central to the development of health systems and services, both in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. Fifty-five years ago, the creators of WHO's Constitution stated that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental right of every human being. In our daily work —and in yours as health ministers —we are […]
Gro Brundtland
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
New Global Challenges: Health and Security from HIV to SARS - July 18, 2003
June 18, 2003
Historically, disease in other places was seen as an impediment to exploration, and a challenge to winning a war. Cholera and other diseases killed at least three times more soldiers in the Crimean War than the actual conflict. Malaria, measles, mumps, smallpox and typhoid felled more combatants than did bullets in the American civil war. And the Panama canal went over-schedule because of "tropical" diseases—then unknown, untreatable and often fatal. Today on that front, there are very few unknowns. Globalization has connected Bujumbura to Bombay, and Bangkok to Boston. In […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
Women and Public Leadership - Oct. 24, 2007
October 24, 2007
Clinton spoke at Iowa State University as the Fall 2007 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Thank you so much, Maggie, for that wonderful introduction and for your student leadership and concern about all of these issues and I'm delighted that your family could be here with you to see the excellent presentation you just made. And I want to thank Dr. Dianne Bystrom for her outstanding leadership as well. And to the Catt Center and Iowa State for hosting this event -- and for all their work […]