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Mary Fallin
categories: Speeches, State of State
2011 State of the State Address - Feb. 7, 2011
February 7, 2011
As prepared for delivery. Lieutenant Governor Lamb, statewide elected officials, Speaker Steele, President Pro Tem Bingman, members of the court, Honorable Senators and Representatives, cabinet members, distinguished guests, and citizens of Oklahoma: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to stand here today as your governor. I’m joined today by my family, my husband Wade and our wonderful children. Thank you for your love and support. We are gathered here to discuss the state of the state. I am proud to say, it is strong. Oklahoma continues to be proud […]
Carol Moseley Braun
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the Iowa Health Care Policy Forum - Aug. 14, 2003
August 14, 2003
Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack moderated a forum at Drake University in which Democratic presidential candidates individually spoke about the state of the health care system and their plans to improve the nation's health care. Candidates also answered questions from the audience. Moseley Braun's remarks begin at 1:32:35 in the C-SPAN video. MOSELEY BRAUN: Thank you very much, Governor Vilsack, and to Drake University President David Maxwell, Dr. Hansen and Dr. Boxer. Thank you so much for organizing this forum, and thanks to all of you for taking time out to […]
Nancy Pelosi
categories: Acceptance Speech, Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks Upon Becoming Speaker of the House - Jan. 4, 2007
January 4, 2007
PELOSI: Thank you, my colleagues. Thank you, Leader Boehner, Mr. Speaker. I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship, and I look forward to working... (APPLAUSE) I look forward to working with you, Mr. Boehner, and the Republicans in the Congress, for the good of the American people. After giving this gavel away in the last two Congresses, I'm glad someone else has the honor today. (LAUGHTER) In this House, we may be different parties, but we serve one country. And our pride and our prayers are […]
Elizabeth Glaser
Speeches
Address at the 1992 Democratic National Convention - July 14, 1992
July 14, 1992
I'm Elizabeth Glaser. Eleven years ago, while giving birth to my first child, I hemorrhaged and was transfused with seven pints of blood. Four years later, I found out that I had been infected with the AIDS virus and had unknowingly passed it to my daughter, Ariel, through my breast milk, and my son, Jake, in utero. Twenty years ago I wanted to be at the Democratic Convention because it was a way to participate in my country. Today, I am here because it's a matter of life and death. […]
Nikki Haley
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks to Press Following UN Security Council Consultations on the Middle East - Feb. 16, 2017
February 16, 2017
The first thing I want to do is talk about what we just saw in there. The Security Council just finished its regular monthly meeting on Middle East issues. It’s the first meeting like that that I’ve attended, and I have to say it was a bit strange. The Security Council is supposed to discuss how to maintain international peace and security. But at our meeting on the Middle East, the discussion was not about Hizballah’s illegal build-up of rockets in Lebanon. It was not about the money and weapons […]
Melania Trump
Speeches
Remarks at Rally in Melbourne, Florida - Feb. 18, 2017
February 18, 2017
Thank you. Let us pray. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Good afternoon. It is my honor and great pleasure to stand here before you as the […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 20, 2000
May 20, 2000
Thank you very much, Dr. Turner. And congratulations to the Class of 2000. Just think how far we have come in the few generations since the Class of 1900 graduates left colleges across Texas and America. One obvious change: This great university—with its 10,000 students, hundreds of staff and faculty—was 600 acres of open prairie in 1900. There was excitement in the air on Sept 22, 1915, when the first one hundred students enrolled at the formal opening of SMU. In fact, the Morning News reported that day that the […]
Marian Wright Edelman
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 22, 1993
May 22, 1993
It is a great honor to share this day of accomplishment and celebration and transition with SMU's president and faculty and administration, trustees, the family and friends of the graduates today, with the distinguished honorees. Most importantly, I'm delighted to be here with the best graduating class in the history of SMU. Shortly before he died, my fellow South Carolinian Lee Atwater said the following in a moving essay in Life magazine: "Long before I was struck with cancer, I felt something stirring in American society. It was a sense […]
Gloria Steinem
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Wellesley College - May 28, 1993
May 28, 1993
I don't know about you, but I am incurably sentimental about commencements. For one thing, they are a time when hopes are set free with so much future before us that hopes can be infinite. For another, all the diverse parts of this community are together -- not just for the last time, but perhaps for the only time. I thank them all for letting me share it: President Nan Keohane, whose leadership will be so missed in the future -- and yet whose impact on her new university, so […]
Gloria Steinem
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Wellesley College - May 27, 1988
May 27, 1988
I am honored to share this day with all of the Class of 1988, and I will always remember it. On the other hand, you may not remember it at all. To insert a note of realism here, I don't remember one single thing about my commencement speaker, or what she said, or what he said. Instead of one theme that might exclude many people, I'm going to be diverse in the hope of coming up with a sentence or two that might be more useful to more people. Each […]