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Angela Alsobrooks
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Bowie State University Commencement Address – May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
To the super-bad Dr. Breaux, to your faculty, staff, family, and friends of the Class of 2025, thank you for what you have done to teach, inspire and love this year's graduating class. And I'd like to congratulate you, the Class of 2025. You have done the hard work, and today is your reward. You’re prepared to take on the world with your trademark Bowie Boldness. And we’re celebrating you. And we need you and what you’ll offer the world more than ever. You’re ready for what’s next and guess […]
Winsome Earle-Sears
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Speech at Regent University – May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
Good morning, graduates. Good morning, Chancellor. Good morning, Madame President. As they like to call me. Sounds very familiar. Good morning, Board of Trustees members. Good morning, everyone, family. Good morning. Good morning. Father God, good morning. It is a tremendous honor and I am deeply humbled. My privilege to stand before you today, not only as your commencement speaker but as a fellow Regent Royal, a proud alumna of this wonderful institution. This institution has helped to shape my life. Indeed, I remember when this was just a dirt […]
Jacinda Ardern
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Remarks at Yale College Class Day – May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025
Te whare e tu nei Te marae e takoto ana Tena korua E nga mate maha Haere, haere, haere Nga tangata whenua o tenei rohe, tena kotou Tatou nga kanohi ora e hui mai ana Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa I greet you this afternoon, as I if I would greet you if I were in my own home country of Aotearoa, New Zealand, by acknowledging all of you, by acknowledging the people of this land, and by celebrating your achievements, which we will all benefit from, as […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Worcester State University Commencement Address – May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025
Thank you! Good morning, Worcester State! It's good to be here. Yes! And congratulations to the class of 2025! You guys earned this. [Applause] What a day and what a remarkable achievement. This is the end of cramming for exams and the beginning of better food options than the dining hall. It is a total win-win. So let's hear a big woohoo for never having to log into my Woo State again. Come on! [Cheers] So I also want to say a big congratulations to all the parents and the […]
Kristi Noem
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address to U.S. Coast Guard Academy – May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
Well, good morning. It is an honor to be with all of you. You are rock stars. Thank you so much for all that you've done to step up and to serve our country and to lead with vision. Years and years ago, I had a gentleman tell me, never get angry on behalf of someone, or rather never get angry on behalf of yourself. Always get angry on behalf of other people. And he also said to me in that same conversation that I had with him, he said, […]
Valerie Jarrett
Speeches
White House Summit on Working Families Opening Remarks – June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
Jarrett provided these opening remarks at the first White House Summit on Working Families, which was hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls, the Labor Department Women's Bureau, and the Center for America Progress. Well, good morning! Good morning, everybody! Good morning! Let us hear from you! Wow. I can't believe you all showed up. Well, I am delighted to be here with my co-hosts Tom and Mira, who you will hear from shortly, to welcome you to the first ever White House Summit on Working Families. […]
Valerie Jarrett
categories: Interview, Speeches
Leadership in the White House - March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014
In March 2014, Jarrett participated as a speaker on the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health webcast series “Voices in Leadership” in a discussion titled "Leadership in the White House," moderated by Dr. Atul Gawande. JARRETT: That was a flawless introduction. You could have left off the years I graduated from school; other than that it was really good. GAWANDE: Well this is fantastic, because of course what you're getting to tell us about and this whole series focuses on decision-making in leadership to help develop young people […]
Soledad O’Brien
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Marshall University Commencement Speech - May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
Good afternoon. What a tremendous honor to be invited to share such an important day with you. I did not go to school here, but I’ve been here a lot, interviewing students and administrators, taking part in events. This is a special place, and I’m so happy to be invited to speak to you today. I was here last shooting a story, Marshall for All, tackling the tough questions about student debt and what Marshall is doing to make college affordable. So, I am happy to be talking to the […]
Jasmine Crockett
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Southern University at New Orleans Commencement Speech - May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
Listen, now. I didn’t came all the way down here from D.C, and I gotta get to Dallas as soon as I finish otherwise my mama gon’ have a problem with me. But I am so happy to be here with y’all. Before I get to my formal recognitions, I have to say this about your congressman, my big brother, Congressman Troy Carter. Now, listen, y’all. He called me and he said, “They want you to be the commencement speaker.” And I said, “There is no way. Who did they […]
Kristi Noem
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Dakota State University Commencement Speech - May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
Well, good morning. It’s such an honor to be with all of you and with all of your students. Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us every day. And we’re all so thrilled to be here and celebrate with you and your families and friends, and talk about all that you accomplish in your days ahead. Last night, we were sitting back at our ranch, Brian and Booker and I. Booker is our son and my husband, Brian, is here as well. We had just completed having […]