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Caroline Kennedy
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
Japan National Press Club - December 17, 2015
December 17, 2015
Good Afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to this gathering. I would like to thank Managing Director Nakai for welcoming me here today and Chairman Nishimura of the planning committee for serving as the moderator. And thank you all for coming. All my senior colleagues from the U.S. Government head over to the Press Club at some point during their visit, and are grateful for the warm welcome, the frank discussion of issues, and the opportunity you provide for us to communicate with the people of Japan. Democracies cannot function […]
Stephanie Murphy
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Speech at CSIS Regarding US-South Korea Alliance and North Korea Threats - September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017
Thank you. Thank you to CSIS and The Korea Foundation for inviting me to speak. I am truly honored to be here. Given recent events on the Korean Peninsula, this event could not be more timely. Victor, thank you for that warm introduction. In addition to serving as a senior advisor at CSIS, Victor is the director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service—where I received my Master’s degree. Victor is a terrific teacher and an even better public servant, and I hope his distinguished career in […]
Grace Meng
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Albanian American Civic League 25th Anniversary - June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015
Now, I want to shift to another part of the world and somebody I'm really very very happy to have met tonight for the first time and that is Congresswoman Grace Meng. She is the first Asian-American member of Congress from New York, she's the only representative of Asian descent on the entire East Coast, she's a member of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee, and she serves on the subcommittee's on Asia and the Pacific and Middle East in Africa, and, if you haven't heard about her or met […]
Carol Molnau
categories: Lecture, Speeches
MCCL Anti-Abortion Rally - January 22, 2010
January 22, 2010
First of all, thank you for all being here. Thank you for being the voice of those tiny little ones that can't speak. Thank you all for being here. As a mother of three, I know that every one of those little lives is a person even though the polls tell us that almost half the people in this country don't believe that that's a human being. That's a sad thing, but as a mother of three, I can tell you I heard that little heartbeat, I felt those little […]
Loretta Sánchez
categories: Keynote Address, Lecture, Speeches
International Women's Day Women's Freedom Forum - March 4, 2017
March 4, 2015
It’s great to see you all here and to have you once again in the Capitol of the United States. It’s important for my colleagues to see you here. Half of the battle that we have in any place is that we be seen. And you know that because even though there are more women in the world than men, they tend not to see us. They tend not to see us. And it is only until we have those brave women who rise and who say, “No more. I […]
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 […]
Elizabeth “Betsy” DeVos
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Title IX and Campus Sexual Assault - September 7, 2017
September 7, 2017
DeVos gave this speech at George Mason University. Thank you Dean Butler for your kind introduction and for the opportunity to be here. I also want to thank President Cabrera for his leadership of George Mason University and for the students and faculty with us today. Thank you for making time to be here on this busy day of classes. It’s a great honor for me to be here today to address a very important topic. Earlier this year marked the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation passed […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Stanford Rathbun Lecture - February 6, 2017
February 6, 2017
Rathbun Visiting Fellow 2017, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, shares her vision for a meaningful life while in conversation with The Rev. Professor Jane Shaw, Dean for Religious Life, on February 6, 2017 in Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University. I thought it might be an appropriate beginning for me to tell you a little bit about my life, and what I'm going to say to you comes from a book called "My Own Words." It's the preface, all in my own […]