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Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
AIPAC- March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016
Thank you so much. It is wonderful to be here and see so many friends. I've spoken at a lot of AIPAC conferences in the past, but this has to be one of the biggest yet, and there are so many young people here, thousands of college students from hundreds of campuses around the country. I think we should all give them a hand for being here and beginning their commitment to this important cause. You will keep the U.S.-Israel relationship going strong. You know, as a senator from New […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
At AIPAC 2008 - Dec. 10, 2008
December 8, 2008
Thank you all very, very much. Thank you. It is wonderful being here with all of you, among so many friends and I feel like this is a giant family reunion. The largest AIPAC gathering in history and I feel like I am among family and thank you for the warm welcome. I want to thank my friend, Lonny Kaplan, for his leadership and that introduction. I also want to thank Howard Friedman for his leadership as president and to congratulate David Victor on his election. I want to commend […]
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Speeches
Address to the UN General Assembly - Sept. 29, 2015
September 29, 2015
Thank you, Mr Chairman of the Assembly, members of this honorable assembly. Let me first extend my gratefulness for an event which was highly relevant and took place here a few days ago, to be more precise, on September 10 this year, when by 136 positive votes the assembly decided to approve the tenets, the basic principles for restructuring countries’ external debts. This has been a very important triumph; nine principles have been enshrined. I have them written here so that I do not forget any. These principles must govern […]
Debbie Dingell
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Dingell Fights to Protect Americans from Terrorist Attacks & Cyber Attacks - June 16, 2015
June 15, 2015
Mr. Speaker, it is very timely that we are considering the Intelligence Authorization bill today, as there have been several troubling incidents that require an immediate response by Congress. I know that members on both sides of the aisle care deeply about both airport security and cybersecurity and we agree that Congress must do everything possible to keep the American people safe. “Last week we learned that there were 73 people employed at airports across the country that should have been disqualified for employment because they are on a terrorist […]
Frances “Sissy” Farenthold
Speeches
Abortion Speech - Sept. 10, 1977
September 10, 1977
Thank you very much, and Vivian, I do appreciate your efforts because that election to the board of Vassar was the' very last election I won .Before we praise our cohesiveness, our development and our success, let us examine and review where we are on that uniquely personal decision, that most fundamental right of women - the decision as to whether to bear children or not. You see I no longer have any constituency to worry about. I can remember one July evening in the corridors of the congress when […]
Nikki Haley
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at the University of South Carolina - May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley received an honorary degree of doctor of public service and delivered the commencement address at the University of South Carolina. Thank you very much. I want to thank President Pastides and of course the board. You know, as daughter Indian parents, I first want to say, if you know in the Indian community, your parents, they raise you and they want you to be one of three things – either a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. So now I can tell them I made […]
Dilma Rousseff
Speeches
Speech at the 68th UN General Assembly - Sept. 24, 2013
September 24, 2013
Ambassador John Ashe, president of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Heads of State and Government, Ladies and Gentlemen, Allow me initially to express my satisfaction in having a renowned representative of Antigua and Barbuda - a country that is part of the Caribbean, which is so cherished in Brazil and in our region - to conduct the work of this session of the General Assembly. You can count, Excellency, on the permanent support of my Government. Allow me […]
Wendy Davis
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at National Press Club - Aug. 5, 2013
August 5, 2013
Thank you. Thank you all so much for having me here today and thank you Angela for inviting me to be here. It really is a pleasure to be in such an esteemed group of people. Now, I have to tell you that people get a little bit nervous when I approach a podium these days. I'm sure that you all know what happened on June 25th in the Texas legislature. But in case you were one of the few people who was not live streaming it, I thought that […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Inaugural Address, Speeches
Inaugural Address - Jan. 16, 2006
January 16, 2006
Excellencies, Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentleman Let us first praise Almighty God, the Arbiter of all affairs of humankind whose omnipotent Hand guides and steers our nation. Before I begin this address, which signifies the high-noon of this historic occasion, I ask that we bow our heads for a moment of silent prayer in memory of the thousands of our compatriots who have died as a result of years of conflict. Thank you! I also ask your indulgence as I reflect on the memory of my two rural illiterate grandmothers […]
Mary Robinson
categories: Inaugural Address, Speeches
Inaugural Address - Dec. 3, 1990
December 3, 1900
Citizens of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann agus fir na hÉireann, you have chosen me to represent you and I am humbled by and grateful for your trust. The Ireland I will be representing is a new Ireland, open, tolerant, inclusive. Many of you who voted for me did so without sharing all my views. This, I believe, is a significant signal of change, a sign, however modest, that we have already passed the threshold to a new, pluralist Ireland. The recent revival of an old concept of the Fifth Province […]