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Luisa D Diogo
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Keynote Address - Feb. 14, 2007
February 14, 2007
Your Excellency Mr. Lennart Bage, President of IFAD, Your Excellency James Harvey Chairperson of the Governing Council of IFAD, Honourable Tommaso Schioppa, Minister for Economy and Finance of the Italian Republic, Distinguished Representatives of Member States, Distinguished Representative from the Holy See, Dear Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen Allow me at the outset to express my appreciation to the President of IFAD for the kind invitation extended to me to take part at the inaugural ceremony of the Thirtieth Session of IFAD´s Governing Council. I would like to seize this opportunity […]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women and Politics - May 7, 2006
May 7, 2006
Good Evening! Thank you Ann for your warm introduction. To the generous sponsors and organizers of the Stennis Center for Public Service, thank you for investing in women! I know that you have all traveled from various locations across the South to be here and I’ve reviewed the agenda, so I know you have a very busy schedule tomorrow. I also know that I am the only thing standing between you and sleep, so let me share a little secret with you, sleep is really overrated! Seriously, it is a […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at the United Nations Economic and Social Council - Dec. 10, 1997
December 10, 1997
Thank you. Mr. President, your excellencies. I welcome this opportunity to be here as we begin this yearlong commemoration, which is not just a commemoration of the universality of human rights; it is a celebration of the United Nations. I am especially pleased that we are able to gather this morning in the economic and social council, which at its first session in February of 1946, established the Commission on Human Rights. Forty-nine winters ago the world acknowledged the new common standard for human dignity, a code for the peoples […]
Mary Taylor
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
School Choice - April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Thanks for being here today. It’s great to see so many of you here who care about giving parents choice. Choice for how to educate their kids here in Ohio. Ohio’s future depends on our children being the best and the brightest in the world. Governor Kasich and I know that every student can succeed if given the right opportunity. You may know that I served as your auditor of state, and when I was there we worked hard to hold every public school accountable, and make sure that our […]
Loretta Lynch
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at the National Women's Law Center Awards Dinner- Nov. 17, 2015
November 17, 2015
Thank you, Presidents [Nancy Duff] Campbell and [Marcia] Greenberger for that kind introduction – and for your decades of unwavering commitment to the cause of justice and the mission of equality. I want to thank Board Chair [Jane] Sherburne for her tireless devotion to this organization; my former colleague Tony West for chairing this inspiring event; and our special guest, Roberta Kaplan, for being a part of this celebration. I also want to thank and to recognize our remarkable honorees – Representative Rosa DeLauro, Sherrilyn Ifill and Saru Jayaraman – […]
Loretta Lynch
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General- Feb. 23, 2016
February 23, 2016
Thank you, Attorney General [Marty] Jackley, for that kind introduction, for your impressive record of service to the people of South Dakota and for your stewardship of this distinguished organization. It’s a pleasure to welcome you all to Washington this morning and it’s a privilege to stand with so many outstanding colleagues as we look back at the progress we have made and plan for the challenges that lie ahead. I know what a remarkable group this is, because in my time as Attorney General, you have been indispensable partners […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance - April 22, 2004
April 22, 2004
I am pleased to join hands with all in attendance at this ceremony of remembrance. May I first express abiding appreciation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for its vigilant assurance that we will never forget the victims of the Nazi madness, the six million Jews, killed simply because they were Jews, and the millions of people of other faiths and diverse affiliations swept into the unnatural maelstrom. I had the good fortune to be a Jew born and raised in the U. S. A. My father left Odessa […]
Diana Princess of Wales
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
On Eating Disorders - April 27, 1993
April 27, 1993
Ladies and Gentlemen I have it, on very good authority, that the quest for perfection our society demands can leave the individual gasping for breath at every turn. This pressure inevitably extends into the way we look. And of course, many would like to believe that Eating Disorders are merely an expression of female vanity - not being able to get into a size ten dress and the consequent frustrations! From the beginning of time the human race has had a deep and powerful relationship with food - if you […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Advocating the Elimination of Gender-Based Discrimination- Feb. 10, 2006
February 10, 2006
Ginsburg gave this address at the University of Cape Town. In the 1970s, a revived feminist movement blossomed in the United States. I was in those years a law teacher and counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization committed to the preservation and advancement of human rights in the U.S. It was my good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, able to participate in the effort to place women's rights permanently on the human rights agenda in the United States. I thought you […]
Sandra Day O’Connor
categories: Acceptance Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
Liberty Medal Award Speech- July 4, 2003
July 4, 2003
This is an absolutely wonderful occasion. Today we celebrate both our nation's birthday, and also the opening of the National Constitution Center in the great city of Philadelphia. The Constitution Center and Independence Hall, together with the Liberty Bell, form a place that every American should visit. It will contribute each and every day to the reinforcement of the basic principles that bind us together as a nation and a people. On May 25, 1787, here in Philadelphia, a quorum of delegates from seven states met in answer to the […]