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Michelle Obama
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Taking on Childhood Obesity- Jan. 28, 2010
January 28, 2010
A little practice, absolutely. Congressman Moran, again I want to thank you for all your work in this area. I look forward to working with you. Our staffs are already talking about some things that you've been working on for a very long time, so we're grateful for your leadership and concern and focus. Mayor Euille, again you have been a host to me in your great city, and you've done wonderful work in this area. I had a terrific time addressing the National Conference of Mayors, and I got […]
Victoria C Woodhull
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And The Truth Shall Make You Free - Nov. 20, 1871
November 20, 1871
This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights associations. It was delivered in Steinway Hall. THE PRESENT CRISIS. When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breastRuns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from East to West,And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climbTo the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublimeOf a century bursts full-blossomed on […]
Nancy Pelosi
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Remarks at California Democrats Convention- May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015
Good morning California Democrats. Thank you John Burton for your great leadership, for your tireless, tenacious, and effective leadership, of the California Democratic Party. Let's hear it for John Burton, our great chairman. It's really wonderful to be here with all of you. Let us all welcome those of you who are here for the first time. How many are here for the first time? So many friends of many years, but wonderful for all of us to see new faces. I'm proud to be here because this is like […]
Elizabeth Warren
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Remarks at California State Democratic Convention - May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015
Thank you. Thank you! Thank you John, thank you Shona, thank you everyone who organized this, and thank you all for being here today. I just want to say I know that Barney Frank is going to be our keynote speaker tonight, and so on behalf of my good friend Barney and myself, we want to thank California for offering to host the Massachusetts democratic state party convention in Anaheim this year. Really nice of you guys. I told that went senator Ted Kennedy used to come to speak to […]
Pat Schroeder
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24 Years of House Work, and the Place is Still a Mess - April 29, 2011
April 29, 2011
Schroeder gave this speech at Vanderbilt University. Thanks so much, Ann [Cook Calhoun], and thank you, Dean [Connie Venita Dowell], and thank all of you. I am absolutely amazed on a Friday afternoon as beautiful as this there is anyone in this room. So thank you all for being here. I must also say for those of you who are tied to the library, one of the other things the English Speaking Union does is we have the Ambassador Book Awards every year. And as you well know, all of […]
Shirley Chisholm
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A Coalition of Conscience - Oct. 3, 1983
October 3, 1983
Chisholm gave this speech at Greenfield High School. Thank you very much. I am very glad to be here this evening. I think it is important that as we look around ourselves in the world today, there are so many complex, complicated problems, and the time has come that somehow we must be able to utilize our creative energies in a positive manner and work together for the amelioration of the human condition. It matters not whether you are white or black, whether you are male or female, but that […]
Angela D Merkel
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Address to the UK Parliament- Feb. 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
As delivered Mr Speaker, Lord Speaker, Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank both Houses of Parliament most sincerely for allowing me to stand before you today. I am aware of the very great honor bestowed on me: I am the third representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, following Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1970 and German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1986, to speak to you I regard this invitation as an expression of the close relations between […]
Carly Fiorina
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Remarks at the 2015 Unite IE Conservative Conference- Feb. 21, 2015
February 21, 2015
Well good morning? How's everybody? Good! Whenever I hear an introduction like that it's so gracious and complimentary and in kind of makes it sound like life is one smooth ascent. Of course it's not. So I want to tell you a little bit about my story because it is the American story. When I was a little girl my mother was my Sunday school teacher, when I was eight years old. Don't worry this won't take too long. And she gave to me and her other students a plaque […]
Carly Fiorina
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The Messenger and the Message: Getting it Right- November 3, 2014
November 3, 2014
Fiorina gave this speech at Southern New Hampshire University. One on the distinctions that I want to draw as we get started here, is between the democrats who engage in identity politics and republicans who are focused on unlocking everyone's potential. We are not focused on engaging women because women are better than men. We are not focused on engaging women because we think women are an identity group that only cares about certain issues. We're focused on engaging women because women are half the talent in this country. Women […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Virginia's 2015 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner - June 26, 2015
June 26, 2015
This speech was given at the EagleBank Arena at George Mason University. Thank you all so much. I gotta tell you… [applause] Thank you. Hello, Virginia! [applause] I love your governor and I love your first lady. And I am so thrilled to be here with you on such an historic day for our country, a day when we affirmed the principle first set down more than two centuries ago by a wise Virginian, that every one of us is created equal. [applause] I'm delighted to be here with so […]