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Elizabeth Warren
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Suffolk University Commencement Address - May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016
Thank you. I am deeply honored to be here today and I am deeply humbled by this award. I appreciate the invitation to join you here today. Thank you, President McKenna, thank you. I can't think of a better place to be celebrating education than at Suffolk University, a school founded in 1996 for the best possible reason – a deep belief that because higher education matters, it should be available not just for the wealthy few but for everyone. Exactly right, Suffolk [clapping]. Exactly right. [applause] A hundred and […]
Samantha Power
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Yale Class Day Address - May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016
Good afternoon, Class of 2016! For starters, I think I owe you an apology. I know what you were thinking. 2014: John Kerry. 2015: Joe Biden. Then 2016 rolls around, and your Class Day speaker still hasn’t been announced, and you start thinking – ok, Secretary of State, then Vice President…who else would follow naturally in the hierarchy … and then, boom! You get the U.S. Ambassador to what? [laughter] Biggest disappointment since they canceled Safety Dance. [laughter] Or, to get more specific, as one of your classmates summed it […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
categories: Eulogy, Speeches
Remarks for the Second Circuit Judicial Conference - May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016
The following remarks were an end-of-the-term report given by Ginsburg at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference in New York. It is fitting to open these remarks with a remembrance of my dear colleague, Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia, in his preface to the libretto for the comic opera Scalia/Ginsburg, described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening in 2009 at the Opera Ball, held at the British Ambassador's Residence. There, he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Bridgewater State University Commencement Address - May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
Warren's remarks begin at 51:35 in the video. Thank you Bridgewater State for inviting me today. It looks as though – I'm looking at the graduates here – most of you have recovered from Spring Fest. Some better than others. Bear with us. Today won't be quite the same. This may not be as much fun as jumping out of windows on folding tables [laughter and cheers], but you have a much better chance of remembering tomorrow morning what you did today. I cannot think of a better place to […]
Madeleine K Albright
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Scripps College Commencement Address - May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016
Thank you very much, Interim President Marcus-Newhall and distinguished faculty and trustees and parents, alumni, friends, and members of the class of 2016. Good afternoon and thank you all very much for inviting me to come and for this very warm welcome. I have delivered a few commencement addresses before and I can tell you my biggest fear is being upstaged by the student speaker. This year, those fears were justified. But Catherine [Chiang], I want to commend you for your openness, your willingness to confront tough issues, your commitment […]
Stacey Plaskett
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Racial Disparity and Closing the Weath Gap in America - Feb. 2, 2016
February 2, 2016
Thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to be here with my colleagues. I am so humbled and honored to be with the gentlewoman Joyce Beatty of Ohio, who is an example to us freshman, and who fights along with the gentleman of New York, Hakeem Jeffries, not just for the people of their district, and not just for African Americans, but for all Americans. Because that is what we are here in this congress to do. By pointing out the inequalities it’s not to cast dispersions to […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
Announcing Run for Governor- Jun. 10, 2014
June 10, 2014
Oh my gosh, I am so excited. I'm excited about all the wonderful people who are here. I thank you for coming out and helping me make a very important announcement. I want to thank Pete Winstead who has done so much for me already in my campaign. What a leader he has been for Austin. Kenny Jastrow, one of my Finance Chairmen who has done a fabulous job and what he has done for our state and for the University of Texas. Bud Shivers, my wonderful Treasurer who stepped […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Jackson State University Commencement Address - April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016
Hey, y’all. [applause] Hey! I'm a Tiger now! [applause] Oh, my goodness! You all good? [applause] All right, enough about me. This is about you. [applause] Let me start by thanking Dr. Meyers for that wonderful introduction, and more importantly, for her leadership of this fine university. I also want to thank Mayor Yarber, Representative Thompson, and all of the elected officials and members of Congress who are here with us today, as well as Mr. Perry, all of the trustees -- Dr. Blaine, Reverend Rhodes, of course, all of […]
Susan E Rice
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at Florida International University - May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016
Good morning, FIU! Thank you, President Rosenberg, for reminding me how old I am. Thank you, Dean Stack and Provost Furton, for letting me share this very special day with you. And Marcia, congratulations on your honorary degree and your lifetime of extraordinary work. I believe a good commencement speech should be like a good commencement speaker—short. [applause] So, if I go on too long, Breezeway cookies for everyone on me. First things first. To the SIPA Class of 2016—congratulations! Felicidades. You did it. You survived the hurricanes and Professor […]
Loretta Lynch
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks on North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act - May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016
Lynch delivered the following remarks at a press conference announcing a complaint against the state of North Carolina to stop discrimination against transgender individuals. We are here to announce a significant law enforcement action regarding North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, also known as House Bill 2. The North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 2 in special session on March 23 of this year. The bill sought to strike down an anti-discrimination provision in a recently-passed Charlotte, North Carolina, ordinance, as well as to require transgender people […]