Speeches / page 21

Karen Bass
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats! Are you as excited as I am? [cheers] I've known Kamala Harris for almost 20 years. Our bond was forged years ago by a shared commitment to children, a belief that it is everyone's responsibility to care for every child no matter where they come from and no matter who their parents are. Kamala knows that each generation has an obligation to the next. That's why when I was speaker of the state assembly and she was a prosecutor, we fought to address youth homelessness and reform the […]
Jasmine Crockett
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Well, good good evening, America! On November 5, our nation will hire a president, a commander in chief and leader of the free world. So let's compare their resumes, shall we? One candidate worked at McDonald's while she was in college at an HBCU. [cheers] HU. The other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and helped his daddy in the family business—housing discrimination, that is. She became a career prosecutor while he became a career criminal with 34 felonies, two impeachments and one porn star to […]
Lauren Underwood
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
COVID was the worst public health crisis in a century. Donald Trump failed us, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got it under control. Donald Trump said, “It is what it is.” Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said, “Help is on the way.” [cheers] Democrats in Congress tried to lower the cost of health care. Donald Trump tried to take our health care away. We tried to expand Social Security and Medicare. Donald Trump tried to cut them, year after year after year. He took the COVID crisis and turned […]
Kathy Hochul
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats! Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris the first…president of the United States? Yes, you are! Yes, you are! Friends, like so many of us, my grandparents came from Ireland as teenagers with nothing but hope in their hearts and fire in their bellies. They built their lives in the promised land of Buffalo, New York. A union card meant good work at the steel plant, the steel plant that lifted in my parents from living in a trailer to the middle class. Like other families in my […]
Gina Raimondo
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats. Hello, Chicago. It's a great honor for me to be here this evening. You know, long before I was the governor of Rhode Island. I was a little girl growing up there in a middle class family. My dad found his American dream in a watch factory in Providence. And that job—that job gave him a way to provide for our family, a community for him to belong to, and so much pride. But like so many Americans in the 80s, after 25 years of his hard work, […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Thank you, Chicago, for your energy. Thank you, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, for your vision. [chants of “AOC! AOC!] Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Chicago, for your energy. Thank you, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, for your vision. And thank you, Joe Biden, for your leadership. [applause] You know, six years ago. I was taking omelet orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn't have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure. And we were struggling with bills after my dad passed […]
Jill Biden
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Thank you, thank you. [cheers continue, with chants of “Jill! Jill!] Thank you so much. Love you, too. Joe and I have been together for almost 50 years. [cheers] And still, there are moments when I fall in love with him all over again. Like when I handed him our baby, Ashley, for the first time and saw the smile that lit up his face. Or on nights after an exhausting day working in the Senate, when he would read one more bedtime story just because the kids asked. […]
Peggy Flanagan
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Good evening and welcome to the first night of the Democratic National Convention. I'm Peggy Flanagan, lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and I am thrilled to be here in Chicago with Democrats from across the country to rally around Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and their vision for America. It's been eight years since we last came together as a party, and I can feel the excitement in this arena. It's filled with energy and with joy. Our theme tonight is “For the people.” We'll hear from union leaders, civil rights […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Opening Night Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Good evening, everyone! Good evening, good evening. It is so good to be with everyone this evening in this hall and everyone at home. This is going to be a great week [cheers] and I want to kick us off by celebrating our incredible president, Joe Biden, [cheers] who will be speaking later tonight. Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation, and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you. [cheers] Thank you, Joe. And looking […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Thank you, my fellow Democrats. Thank you, my fellow Americans. Thank you so much. Thank you all… Wow. There’s a lot of energy in this room, just like there is across the country. Something is happening in America, you can feel it. Something we’ve worked for and dreamed of for a long time. First though, let’s salute President Biden. He has been democracy’s champion at home and abroad. He brought dignity, decency, and confidence back to the White House, and he showed what it means to be a true patriot. […]