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Katherine “Kate” Brown
Speeches
2015 State of the State Address - April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015
As prepared. Greetings. Many thanks to President Kervin for that kind introduction, and to the Portland City Club and OPB for this opportunity to share with you the state of our great State. As of tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., I will have been in office for exactly two months. A lot has happened in sixty days, although considering the controversy I inherited, a lot needed to happen, and quickly. A fresh start for the people of Oregon was an important first step for me as Governor. So I immediately […]
Kay Hagan
categories: Campaign Speech, Concession Speech, Speeches
Concession Speech - Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Concession speech by Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) after losing her bid for a second term to Republican Thom Tillis. Hello, everybody. It is so good to see you. Thank you do much for being here. [APPLAUSE] Thank you so much for your friendship. Thank you for being here tonight. I just called Speaker Tillis to congratulate him and to tell him we will work with him during this transition period. I really first want to thank my fabulous husband, Chip. [APPLAUSE] You know, it's been one of the greatest blessings […]
Sonia Sotomayor
categories: Interview, Keynote Address, Speeches
Freedom to Write - May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013
Named for the former PEN president and fierce defender of the freedom of expression, the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture is a defining event of the PEN World Voices Festival. A conversation between Justice Sotomayor and award-winning writer, scholar, and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. follows the lecture. I feel so humbled to be in the Great Hall, at a podium at which one of my favorite presidents stood, President Lincoln. But among such distinguished writers – you must believe me, because I say it, right? – I'm […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the Launch of Asian American and Pacific Islander's for Hillary - Jan. 7, 2016
January 7, 2016
Thank you so very, very much. Oh my goodness, this is very exciting for me. I am so honored to be kicking off AAPI for me and this campaign, but I really see it as for all of us, this is a campaign that will do everything that the Congresswoman just said: to make sure that all people in our country have the chance to live up to their potential, that all people are taken to the heights of what our great nation can offer and that they are part […]
Barbara Comstock
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Barbara Comstock Victory Speech - Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Thank you Katie, and thank all of you so much. I guess I am finally going to get a real job. I am so proud of the campaign that we ran together. Our positive message of growth and opportunity and our focus on the promise of the future, has won the day again. Here in the 10th district, and here in the common wealth of Virginia. I am thankful that the good people of the 10th district have given me the privilege to represent them in the people’s house, I […]
Debbie Halvorson
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Women Fighting Together- Feb. 5, 2013
February 5, 2013
I just want to start by giving you a few facts, and then lead into what it is that I'm here to talk to you about. We as women, we are more than fifty percent of the electorate, we are more than 50 percent of the voting base, women hold 58 percent of the online purchases, women make eighty percent of all the health care decisions, 64 percent of moms are in the workforce. Thirty-five percent versus twenty-seven percent 35 percent women, 27 percent of men hold bachelor's degrees or […]
Monica Wehby
categories: Concession Speech, Speeches
U.S. Senate race concession speech - Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Thank you all very much for coming out here to be with me tonight. A few minutes ago I called senator Merkley and I congratulated him on his re-election to the U.S. Senate, and I wish him well, because I wish America well. The time has come to unite and to work together to solve the great challenges of our country, though I obviously hoped that he had been calling me. I’m still very proud of our campaign. I’m proud of the fact that we ran a race on principles, […]
Ann Wagner
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Planned Parenthood - July 21, 2015
July 21, 2015
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my continued outrage at now two abhorrent videos that have been released in the last week, in which two of Planned Parenthood’s senior doctors describe the process by which they and their coworkers kill unborn children and harvest their organs for sale. Like many Americans, I was shocked not only by what I learned about Planned Parenthood’s standard practices, but by the cold, callous indifference in which Dr. Deborah Nucatola and Dr. Mary Gatter, detailed the barbaric murder of society’s most vulnerable children. […]
Sue Ellspermann
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
WGU Indiana Commencement Address- Jan. 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
Okay, that was amazing Chancellor Barber, to even go through those titles. I’ve never thought of it that way. But thank you. Thank you to all of you, thank you for the opportunity to be here. I do join one of many of you out here that are cheering all of you on, and congratulating you on your good work. You know, being a non-traditional student is not easy. For many, it was nearly impossible before WGU. So let me begin by singing my praises of WGU, Indiana. You are […]
Chelsea Clinton
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Addressing Challenging Global and Domestic Health Problems- April 9, 2015
April 9, 2015
Well, thank you, Atul [Gawande], thank you, Dean, for welcoming me. Thank you to Betty Johnson for all of her stewardship of this event and ensuring that we all got here on time and in the right places. Thank you to everyone at the School of Public Health and the broader Harvard community who has made this event possible today. I also would like to thank Dr. Nall for all of her work on behalf of cancer survivors here and around the world and we were just talking about hopefully […]