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Helle Thorning-Schmidt
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Global Green Growth Forum Introduction- Oct. 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Distinguished Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Global Green Growth Forum seeks to develop new ways of making progress on some of the most critical challenges facing our world today. I am proud that Denmark is hosting this important event. Eight days ago, my government assumed office. We have put green growth as a top priority in this government. But we also know that our current path will not take us there. We need change. We need innovation. We need renewed cooperation, across nations and across public […]
Ann Marie Buerkle
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Ann Marie Buerkle at the Conservative Women's Network- June 10, 2014
June 10, 2014
Thank you all very much, and thank you for that kind introduction. Sometimes when I'm feeling tired I listen to everything ok maybe that's why I'm tired. I'm just so glad to be back here and I just think Clare Boothe Luce Society for this opportunity to talk to all of you because there's is nothing more important than your generation and making sure that you're involved and that you can carry on the great legacy the United States of America. Before we get started, and I've got prepared comments […]
Queen Rania of Jordan
categories: Lecture, Speeches
A Tale of Twenty-Two Cities - Nov. 7, 2013
November 7, 2013
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…" Written in 1859, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens opened A Tale of […]
Queen Rania of Jordan
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Remarks at Yale University - Sept. 22, 2009
September 22, 2013
President Levin, Dean Lorimer, faculty, students… thank you so much for making me feel so welcome here at Yale. I’ve wanted to come here for many years, and am so grateful to everyone for the hospitality and kindness you’ve shown to me and my staff. I’ve really been looking forward to seeing the Yale landmarks that I’ve been hearing about for so long – the Beinecke Library… Harkness Tower… Old Campus… Peter Salovey’s moustache. Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t make it quite in time for that last one! But everything […]
Erna Solberg
categories: Lecture, Speeches
How Can Investing in Women and Girls Accelerate Global Development Beyond 2015?- Jan. 24, 2015
January 24, 2015
Members of the World Economic Forum, ladies and gentlemen, Poverty eradication and sustainable development are inextricably linked with women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality. Empowering women and girls increases productivity. The UNDP Gender Inequality Index shows that countries with higher gender equality have a higher per capita gross domestic product. The International Finance Corporation’s publication investing in Women’s Employment – Good for business, good for development (2013) provides compelling evidence that the role of women and gender relations in low- and middle-income countries are critical. It concludes that, “economic […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Lecture, Speeches
On Career and Technical Education - June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015
Hello, everyone! How are you all doing? Please rest yourselves. Let me start by thanking Jacob for that wonderful introduction and for sharing your story. It is amazing. It's inspiring. It is the reason why we do what we do. Just hearing how you persevered and now you've gone on to great life lessons like hollandaise sauce and béarnaise sauce. (laughter) And I thought I was happy to have Malia make some scrambled eggs. (laughter) But we're so proud of you and we're so glad that you're the leader that […]
Chelsea Clinton
categories: Lecture, Speeches
At TEDxTeen - April 8, 2013
April 8, 2013
Thank everybody, I'm so excited to be here at TEDxTeen today with all of you in the room, and with Andrew, and everyone who's joining us online from around the world. I was so excited to be asked to participate in TEDxTeen, because I fundamentally believe in the principle behind this gathering today. That young people, just as much as anyone, maybe even more than most, have vital contributions to make to our world today and to our future tomorrow. I absolutely believe that your voices should be heard, because […]
Chelsea Clinton
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Addressing Challenging Global and Domestic Health Problems- April 9, 2015
April 9, 2015
Well, thank you, Atul [Gawande], thank you, Dean, for welcoming me. Thank you to Betty Johnson for all of her stewardship of this event and ensuring that we all got here on time and in the right places. Thank you to everyone at the School of Public Health and the broader Harvard community who has made this event possible today. I also would like to thank Dr. Nall for all of her work on behalf of cancer survivors here and around the world and we were just talking about hopefully […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Lecture, Speeches
The Unfinished Business of Financial Reform- April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015
Thank you all for being here today. We’re here to ask a critical question at a critical moment: what are we to make of Dodd-Frank five years later? To answer that question, I think we should start by looking at how the government responded to the last major financial crisis – the Wall Street Crash of 1929. After the 1929 crash, policymakers diagnosed what had gone wrong and then changed the laws to make sure that excessive speculation and risk-taking on Wall Street couldn’t push the economy over a cliff […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Remarks at the National Press Club - Nov. 18, 2015
November 18, 2015
Thanks so much, it’s good to be here! I appreciate you're doing a list because I wanted to come here to expand that list a little bit. Change in the air in Washington. The lobbyists are swarming on Capitol Hill, the buzz is everywhere. Congress is going to revise the corporate tax code and the time is nearly here. So, the lobbyists have a pretty strong elevator pitch. It goes like this, US corporations are paying too much in taxes, the top tax corporate rate is 35 percent, which is […]