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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 […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Lecture, Speeches
The Power of Education - November 12, 2015
November 12, 2015
Let me tell you, I'm thrilled to be back here at the Columbia Heights Education Campus. How many of you guys were here when the President and I were here the last time? (applause) Yes, show -- applause are good. That will help me out. That's good. So you guys have made some good progress, and now we're back because we are so proud of what you all have been doing here, and we thought that this was the best place to begin this conversation. So let me start by […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Remarks at Peace Corps Training Event - March 21, 2015
March 21, 2015
Well, hello. Let me try this: Suor Sdai. Is that okay? (Laughter.) I’ll work on it. Well, hello. It is truly a pleasure and an honor to be here in Siem Reap with all of you. I’m grateful for the hospitality and the warmth of the Cambodian people who have made me feel welcome and at home in such a short period of time. And I’m thrilled to join all of you today as we embark on one of the very first trainings for Let Girls Learn. I want to […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Lecture, Speeches
A Voice For Freedom- Dec. 10, 2011
December 10, 2011
Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Nobel Laureates, my brothers and sisters: On behalf of all the women of Liberia, the women of Africa, and women everywhere in the world who have struggled for peace, justice and equality, I accept with great humility the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace. I am particularly honored to be a successor to the several sons and one daughter of Africa who have stood on this stage – Chief Albert John Lutuli, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de […]