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Loretta Lynch
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Announcing a Federal Investigation of Chicago Police- Dec. 7, 2015
December 7, 2015
All right. Good morning, all, and thank you all for being here. I am joined today by Vanita Gupta, head of the Department [of Justice] Civil Rights Division, and Zachary Fardon, United States Attorney for Illinois. The Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards throughout the United States. Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful, and most importantly, constitutional. When community members feel they are not receiving that kind of policing, when they feel ignored, let down, or mistreated […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Press Conference, Speeches
A Conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand- Sept. 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
ELIZABETH WARREN: Thank you. That is a truly wonderful introduction, and I do like to think that all three of the Kennedy brothers would be delighted to look down and see that the two of us hold their seats. So it is wonderful to be here today. It does make me proud to be from Massachusetts, to be here where people like to hear about books and talk about books. [laughter] So I want to dive right in to this book, which you start, Kirsten, with a rather blunt and […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - Feb. 27, 2015
February 27, 2015
SIRLEAF: Mr. Secretary, I’d like to thank you for the opportunity to meet with you, to exchange views. I come also to express on behalf of the Liberian people our deep appreciation for the support which we have received as we continue to fight this deadly virus. We want to thank President Obama for the strong leadership which he has shown, for the call to action that he has made. We thank the Administration; we thank the Congress in a bipartisan way for the support they’ve given to the Administration’s […]
Jackie Speier
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Seeking united call to action to pass ERA - July 24, 2015
July 24, 2015
SPEIER: On the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, Alice Paul first announced a new constitutional amendment. It was then entitled the Lucretia Mott amendment, as she called it. It is the Equal Rights Amendment. And it’s been introduced every session of congress from 1923-1972. Thirty-five states have ratified the ERA before the deadline, leaving us just three states short. We are still fighting to get women into the constitution, 91 years after the ERA was first introduced, and 166 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. To the women […]
Carolyn B Maloney
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Seeking united call to action to pass ERA - July 24, 2015
July 24, 2015
SPEIER: On the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, Alice Paul first announced a new constitutional amendment. It was then entitled the Lucretia Mott amendment, as she called it. It is the Equal Rights Amendment. And it’s been introduced every session of congress from 1923-1972. Thirty-five states have ratified the ERA before the deadline, leaving us just three states short. We are still fighting to get women into the constitution, 91 years after the ERA was first introduced, and 166 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. To the women […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks at the US-Liberia Partnership Dialogue Signing Ceremony - Jan. 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
CLINTON: Well, welcome to the Treaty Room. I am delighted to have this occasion, once again, to host President Sirleaf, a very good partner over many years, and especially, I would say, over the last four years it has been a great personal pleasure for me to work with her to strengthen that partnership between the United States and Liberia. And I also am grateful, as well, for her personal friendship. Today, we are taking another important step to deepen the partnership between our nations and to support Liberia as […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
US-Liberia Partnership Dialogue Signing Ceremony - Jan. 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
CLINTON: Well, welcome to the Treaty Room. I am delighted to have this occasion, once again, to host President Sirleaf, a very good partner over many years, and especially, I would say, over the last four years it has been a great personal pleasure for me to work with her to strengthen that partnership between the United States and Liberia. And I also am grateful, as well, for her personal friendship. Today, we are taking another important step to deepen the partnership between our nations and to support Liberia as […]
Barbara Mikulski
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Retirement Announcement - March 2, 2015
March 2, 2015
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, announces she will retire at the end of her term in 2016. I am pleased to be here again in Fells Point, where I have spent a big part of my life and to be joined by my colleague in the Senate, Senator Ben Cardin. This is the neighborhood where I've spent most of my life, where I've learned the values that have guided my life, and where important things have happened here. This is…we're right in the neighborhood, exactly in the path of the […]
Emma Watson
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Program Launch - Jan. 23, 2015
January 23, 2015
Since the HeForShe launch in New York last September, I think it would be fair to say that my colleagues and I have been stunned by the response. The HeForShe conference was watched over 11 million times sparking 1.2 billion social media conversations, culminating in the HeForShe hashtag becoming so popular that Twitter painted it on the walls of its headquarters and men from almost every country in the world signed up to our commitment. Everyone – from Desmond Tutu to Prince Harry to Hillary Clinton to Yoko Ono – […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks With Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Yerlan Idrissov - Oct. 3, 2012
October 3, 2012
Good afternoon, everyone. I am delighted to welcome a very well-known figure here to the State Department and to have this opportunity to greet him as Foreign Minister. But before I turn to the issues that bring us together today, let me say a few words about a subject that I know is on many people's minds. There are continuing questions about what exactly happened in Benghazi on that night three weeks ago. And we will not rest until we answer those questions and until we track down the terrorists […]