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Michelle Obama
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote Address at 2012 Democratic National Convention - Sept. 4, 2012
September 4, 2012
I want to start by thanking Elaine. Elaine, thank you so much. We are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice, and we will always have your back. Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country. And everywhere I've gone, in the people I've met, and the stories I've heard, I have seen the very best of the American spirit. I have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my […]
Shelley Moore Capito
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
FDIC Future of Community Banking Conference - Feb. 16, 2012
February 16, 2012
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the introduction and thank you for the warm welcome, and thank you for including me in your lunch. I got a little nervous when it says keynote speaker because that sounds like a big deal and it is a big deal, so I want to try to talk a little bit about what's going on in the subcommittee, what's going on in the committee, what's going on in Congress, and how I see a perspective. I know we've got a broad array of folks in […]
Kelly Ayotte
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Defense Sequestration - June 26, 2012
June 26, 2012
Let me just thank you so much, Michael. I deeply appreciate being invited here today to be in front of the Brookings Institute, and I appreciate all of you who have come to participate in this. I'm really thrilled to see the two panels that are following me on this because this it's a great array of national security experts, Department of Defense officials and members of our defense industrial base that I'm sure will give you even greater insight than I'll provide today. What I'd like to do is […]
Karen Bass
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Impact of Federal Budget Cuts on Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Research - April 29, 2011
April 29, 2011
Bass gave this address at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Good afternoon, everyone. It really is my pleasure to be here at UCLA. I think I try to come here at least once a year, and in the six years that I was in the state legislature I did represent UCLA and now in Congress, I represent that other school. But UCLA will definitely always be in my heart and the school knows it can call on me at any time. I especially want to thank Dr. Brown […]
Mary E Kramer
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
How Did We Get So Rude? - June 1, 2013
June 1, 2013
Thanks for inviting me...important topic - and there is opportunity for this group to make a difference as they have in so many other things. Thank you for your presence here today. It indicates you are interested in the future of our state and our country and are willing to give time and energy to make it better. Goals for today? Provide information on a topic that threatens our form of government - perhaps more than any time in our memory. Provide tools and encouragement to league members to become […]
Margaret Thatcher
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
John Findley Foundation Lecture - March 9, 1996
March 9, 1996
Thatcher gave this address at Westminster College. Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Governor, ladies and gentlemen: I am sensible of the honor you do me in inviting me to give this memorial lecture. May I thank you, Governor, your kind and generous welcome. When my distinguished predecessor delivered his Fulton speech, exactly fifty years ago, he journeyed hither by train in the company of the President of the United States. On the way, they played poker to pass the time. And the President won 75 dollars -- quite a sum in […]
Shirley Franklin
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Gender Equality for State and Local Governments - Nov. 16, 2006
November 16, 2006
Distinguished guests, Fellow Delegates: On behalf of the City of Atlanta, I am pleased and honored to welcome you to our great city and to host this inaugural meeting. I also want to thank our co-host, UNITAR, as well as the many other generous sponsors and cooperative organizations that have supported this effort. While you’re here in Atlanta, please enjoy yourselves, While last week’s mid-term elections in the United States resulted in an increase in the number of women in political office there is still much that must be done. […]
Barbara Lawton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote Speech at AAC&U 2006 National Conference - Jan. 26, 2005
January 26, 2005
Sunday, the New York Times headlined a new $3.75 billion federal initiative, approved by the U.S. Senate and expected to pass the House, that would give $750 grants to low-income college students who successfully completed a “rigorous secondary school program of study,” grants that would increase for juniors and seniors with specific declared majors. We couldn’t ask for higher-level acknowledgment that we’re on the right track with LEAP but, from my perspective as a top official in Wisconsin’s executive branch, this quiet addition to the budget bill could well hobble […]
Gro Brundtland
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Statement to the 111th session of the Executive Board - Jan. 20, 2003
January 20, 2003
Mr Chairman, Members of the Executive Board, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this 111th Session of the Executive Board. We have come a long way together in the last four and a half years. We have seen WHO strengthen its position as an international health organization that matters. We have seen WHO become a rejuvenated organization, with a strategic agenda that engages the whole of WHO - headquarters, regions and the countries, putting health firmly on the global development agenda, and inspiring action by a variety […]
Gro Brundtland
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Speech to the 23rd Joint Coordinating Board - June 26, 2000
June 26, 2000
Dear Members and Observers of the Joint Coordinating Board, We are gathered here as the highest governing body of a programme set up by the international community 25 years ago to develop new and improved ways of dealing with diseases that impede social and economic development in large parts of the world, diseases that disproportionately affect poor people and the least developed countries. For the TDR group of diseases, the gap between the world's 20% poorest and 20% richest is wide. If the disease, age, and gender specific death rates […]