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Elizabeth Warren
Speeches
Banking Hearing Questions to Janet Yellen - Feb. 14, 2017
February 14, 2017
WARREN: Thank You, Mr. Chairman. Good to see you again, Chair Yellen. So, the 2008 financial crisis cost millions their jobs, their homes and their savings and in response, Congress passed the bipartisan Dodd Frank Act, which aimed to prevent big banks from blowing up the economy again. Now, President Trump has called it a quote, “disaster” and has vowed to quote “dismantle it.” He started down that road two weeks ago when he issues an executive order on financial regulation, and he has put two men—Steve Mnuchin and Gary […]
Jeane J Kirkpatrick
Speeches
Statement on KAL-007 - Sept. 6, 1983
September 6, 1983
The following is the speech U.S. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick delivered to the U.N. Security Council before the Soviet Union admitted one of its fighter jets had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on Sept. 1, 1983. Most of the world outside the Soviet Union has heard by now of the Korean Flight 007 carrying 269 persons between New York and Seoul which strayed off course into Soviet airspace, was tracked by Soviet radar, was targeted by a Soviet Su-15 whose pilot coolly, and after careful consultation, fired two […]
Laura Bush
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 16, 2009
May 16, 2009
Thank you, Dr. Turner, for your kind introduction. Thank you for inviting me—I'm happy to join each of you for this special day. Thank you to the distinguished faculty, members of the Board of Trustees, alumni, parents, and families for your very warm welcome. Most of all, thank you and congratulations to the SMU Class of 2009. Today we celebrate nearly 2,000 graduates from 7 schools and 173 majors—representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 102 foreign countries. We congratulate your parents and families and teachers, […]
Blanche Lambert Lincoln
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Randolph-Macon Women's College - 2000
May 27, 2000
Good morning and thank you so much. To you graduates, this is a very awesome task that I have. As I stand here before you, but also the faculty, who carefully instructed me as I walked down in the procession that they only remembered my involvement and not my grades. I was very pleased to hear that. But it is a delightful morning, a wonderful morning for me to be here to join you. It is a great honor for me to be here today and it is also with […]
Maya Angelou
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Smith College - May 17, 1980
May 17, 1980
I am honored that you have asked me to participate with you in such an important rite of passage—your most important rite of passage—and certainly your first as an adult. I am honored because I know that this particular ceremony will furnish you with friends and memories that you will carry through the rest of your lives. You will be influenced later on, you will go on to get another degree and another, and many of you will be honored by kings and presidents—and queens I pray. But this one […]
Marian Wright Edelman
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Oberlin College - May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015
It is a great honor to share this day of accomplishment, celebration, and transition at this great college with your trustees, President, faculty, families, and most importantly with what I am sure is the best graduating class in Oberlin’s history. Oberlin’s great abolitionist history makes me wonder how much closer America’s dream would be towards becoming America’s reality today if your admissions policies for African American citizens and women had been adopted by other colleges and universities in their beginning years. We are living in a time of unbearable dissonance […]
Joni Ernst
categories: Interview, Speeches
Remarks to General Nicholson on Military Operations in Afghanistan - Feb. 12, 2017
February 12, 2017
ERNST: Thank you so much. It is great to see you back on American soil. Thank you for your continued service. I want to thank your family for their support of you, and for sharing you and your talents in a leadership capacity in a difficult theater of operations. So thank you and your family very much. I like to pick up where we left off in Afghanistan when I visited a couple months ago. You better than most understand that a General had directed the establishment of the First […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Interview, Lecture, Speeches
Discussion with the First Lady, Secretary of Education - Jul. 19, 2016
July 19, 2016
MR. OAKLEY: Thank you all for joining us this morning. (Applause.) I am so excited to be here. You all are -- everyone is so excited, it’s so cute. MRS. OBAMA: They’re all excited. MR. OAKLEY: Everyone is excited. Like I said, this is the third annual, and it has just gotten bigger and better every year. We have an incredible panel of inspiring people that we will be chatting with all morning. And I got to say, I am I think most excited to see this many people here. […]
Gwen Ifill
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Simmons College - May 15, 2009
May 15, 2009
Thank you. Leave it to Simmons to make me cry just before I have to speak. Both of you – than you and congratulations. I could not be more pleased to be anywhere that I am right here today. I feel such affection for you and I wish you such good things. Sending another class of Simmons graduates off into the sheer terror of the current employment market – it just fills me up. I look at you and I see excitement and anticipation and nervousness and a little bit […]
Condoleezza Rice
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012
Thank you very, very much. Thank you, President Turner, for that wonderful introduction. Thank you to the chairman of your Board of Trustees, Caren Prothro, and to the faculty. Thank you for what you have done to prepare these young people for what lies ahead. To family and friends, and most especially to the graduates of the class of 2012, congratulations to you. It’s great to be here in Mustang country. It’s wonderful to be back in Dallas and to join you for this splendid ceremony. I do know that […]