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Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Interview, Speeches
Will She Run? - Feb. 26, 2014
February 26, 2014
A selection of clips showing how Hillary Rodham Clinton responded to variations of the question: Will she run for president in 2016? University of Miami February 26, 2014 DONNA SHALALA: Can you give us some insight into how the TBD in your bio will play out? [applause and laughter] CLINTON: Well, I'd really like to, but I have no characters left. Clinton Global Initiative 2013 Annual Meeting Breakout session: CGI Conversations September 24, 2013 SANJAY GUPTA: Listen, I have a feeling that if I ask you what you […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
Virginia's 2015 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner - June 26, 2015
June 26, 2015
This speech was given at the EagleBank Arena at George Mason University. Thank you all so much. I gotta tell you… [applause] Thank you. Hello, Virginia! [applause] I love your governor and I love your first lady. And I am so thrilled to be here with you on such an historic day for our country, a day when we affirmed the principle first set down more than two centuries ago by a wise Virginian, that every one of us is created equal. [applause] I'm delighted to be here with so […]
Olympia J Snowe
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Farewell Address - Dec. 13, 2012
December 13, 2012
Madam President, I rise today with an infinite appreciation for the institution of the U.S. Senate as well as a profound sense of gratitude as I prepare to conclude my 18 years in the Senate and my nearly 40 years in elective office on behalf of the people of Maine. It has been difficult to envision this day when I would be saying farewell to the Senate, just as it was impossible to imagine I would one day become a U.S. Senator as I was growing up in Maine. But […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Q&A at the Iowa State Fair- August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015
Thank you I am so thrilled to be engaged in this great tradition and ritual of presidential politics. And you know I have to always set the record straight when someone introduces me so graciously, yes I have had a life that is only possible here in the United States of America, its only possible here that a young woman can start out as a secretary and go on to eventually run for the presidency of the United States. [Applause] But I, like everyone else in life, have had my […]
Geraldine A Ferraro
Speeches
Jamestown High School Commencement Address - June 26, 1998
June 26, 1998
I must say, before I get to my remarks, that I have attended and spoke at literally hundreds of graduations, but I have never heard a musical presentation like the one I heard tonight. I thank you. After extensive briefing, reviewing the issues in depth, and great soul searching, I have arrived at what I think is the most responsible position. Whatever you did on Senior Skip Day, I don’t want to know about it. But here is one thing I do know. In a world that doesn’t do much […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library - July 27, 2015
July 27, 2015
Thank you so very much. Thank you. Thank you for that very warm welcome. I am truly honored to be here and thank you for that wonderful and gracious introduction. In his farewell address, President Reagan said, "Do not be afraid to see what you see." I have always believed that it is the role of the leader to see the truth, to speak the truth and to act on the truth, and so tonight I would like to speak about what I see and describe to you how I […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Keynote Address, Speeches
U.S. Conference of Mayors - June 20, 2015
June 20, 2015
Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you. It's great to be here with all of you. I'm looking out at the audience and seeing so many familiar faces, as well as those here up on the dais. I want to thank Kevin for his introduction and his leadership of this organization. Mayor Lee, thanks for having us in your beautiful city. It is, for me, a great treat to come back to address a group that, as you just heard, I spent a lot of time as senator […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at Sen. Joni Ernst's Roast and Ride - June 6, 2015
June 6, 2015
Howdy! How's everybody? How's everybody? This morning, I was walking in Story City's Scandinavian Days parade, and I was shaking a lot of hands. I was shaking so many hands that I fell behind my float, the Story County GOP float, and I learned that in Iowa if you fall behind your float, you can hitch a ride with a nice gentleman on his John Deere tractor. It was recently a poll earlier, this week, that asked Americans who they most wanted to see debate Hillary Clinton. I was gratified […]
Shirley Chisholm
categories: Interview, Speeches
Excerpts from the National Visionary Leadership Project - May 7, 2002
May 7, 2002
These excerpts are from an interview with Shirley Chisholm conducted by Dr. Camille O. Cosby as part of the National Visionary Leadership Project. More information can be found at http://www.visionaryproject.org/chisholmshirley/. Outlook on the Future CHISHOLM: If our very basic Constitution had phrases in it had to do with slavery and if we go back to the birth of the country and the growth of this country and if we go back to laws rules and regulations of the states, I can't be optimistic. I try to be, but I can't. […]
Cardiss Collins
categories: Interview, Speeches
Excerpts from the National Visionary Leadership Project - May 2, 2003
May 3, 2003
These excerpts are from an interview with Cardiss Collins conducted by Renee Poussaint as part of the National Visionary Leadership Project. More information can be found at http://www.visionaryproject.org/collinscardiss/ Advice to Young African Americans Collins: I would hope and I would advise young Africa-Americans to learn our history. So often I've talked to my son and to my granddaughter about how life was in my lifetime and they think it's funny. They think the trials and tribulations that our people have gone through were stories that were in old history books […]