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Elizabeth Warren
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
My Announcement - Sept. 13, 2011
September 13, 2011
I'm going to do this. I'm going to run for the United States Senate. And the reason is straightforward: middle class families have been chipped at, hacked at, squeezed and hammered for a generation now, and I don't think Washington gets it. Washington is rigged for big corporations that hire armies of lobbyists. A big company, like GE, pays nothing in taxes, and we're asking college students to take on even more debt to get an education? We're telling seniors they may need to learn to live on less? It […]
Christine Gregoire
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches, Victory Speech
Primary Victory Speech - Aug. 19, 2008
August 19, 2008
I want to give a big thanks to the Northwest African American Museum for letting us come here. This place is great. It's gonna to draw crowds from all over the world. Please give it up for this museum. Thank you. And please – a big shout-out for the great representative from this district, Eric Pettigrew. Thank you, Eric. Ladies and gentlemen, we're winning in all four corners of the great state of Washington. We have worked hard over the last three-and-a-half years to create one Washington. Today, we have […]
Pat Schroeder
categories: Interview, Speeches
MAKERS profile: Former Congresswoman - March 4, 2013
March 4, 2013
PAT SCHROEDER: The question was asked, “How can you be a mother and a congresswoman?” I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work. The ideal for women in my generation was very conflicted. When I was at the University of Minnesota, there were an awful lot who thought you should get your MRS degree, and then you were going to be taken care of. You were just going to be carried away on this wonderful barge, and life was good from then on. I […]
Pat Schroeder
Speeches
MAKERS profile: Death Threats as a U.S. Congresswoman - March 4, 2013
March 4, 2013
There were many times when I wondered what I was putting my family through. Several times I came into the airport and there would be somebody from the Bureau of Firearms and Alcohol Abuse saying we found somebody with guns and they were- they had your house address. And even in Washington we had bricks thrown through the window and we had stuff like that done that people were very hostile, but mainly they were just other kids. But one of my classic evenings when I realized, oh my goodness, […]
Pat Schroeder
Speeches
Family and Medical Leave Act - April 10, 2008
April 10, 2008
Thank you very much Congresswoman Woolsey and this wonderful panel. I really, really appreciate the time and the effort because as we all know employment practices in the U.S. have really not kept pace with most that the rest of the developed world. And as the congresswoman said, I am kind of the mother of the Family Medical Leave Act, and it did take nine years to get this thing into law, so it was a very frustrating and long period. In 1988, after it had been introduced for three […]
Shirley Chisholm
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
Declaring presidential bid - Jan. 25, 1972
January 25, 1972
I stand before you today, as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America. I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests. I stand here now, without endorsements from many big-name politicians or celebrities or any other kind of […]
Carly Fiorina
Speeches
Remarks at the Iowa Freedom Summit - Jan. 24, 2015
January 24, 2015
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. So great to be with you here. When I was a little girl, my mother, who was my Sunday school teacher that year, gave me and the rest of her Sunday school class a little plaque, and it said, What you are is God's gift to you. What you make it yourself is your gift to God. I didn't feel very gifted as a child but I went on to college and I graduated with a degree in medieval history and philosophy. […]
Marsha Blackburn
Speeches
Remarks at the Iowa Freedom Summit - Jan. 24, 2015
January 24, 2015
Thank you! Okay, who's having a good time? [quiet response] You gotta do better than that. Are you havin' fun? Do you feel like you're gettin' your conservative creds up to speed? Well, let me tell you something. Steve King, y'all. Well, first of all—y'all. I'm from Nashville so y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive. So all y'all's Steve King is doing a helluva job. Keep him there. We love him! And how about Joni Ernst! Is she not fabulous? Joni did a great […]
Geraldine A Ferraro
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Future of Women in Politics - Feb. 20, 1991
February 20, 1991
ADDIE GUTTAG: Hello. My name is Addie Guttag, and I'm a member of the board at the 92nd Street Y. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the sixth annual Goldberg lecture, which was endowed in memory of Monica Dennis Goldberg and provides an annual forum for women of achievement. It is hard to imagine a woman who has achieved more than our guest this evening, a woman who single-handedly has redefined the possibilities for women in American politics. That woman, of course, is Geraldine Ferraro. Introducing Gerry tonight […]
Sarah Palin
Speeches
Remarks at the Iowa Freedom Summit - Jan. 24, 2015
January 24, 2015
I thank you so much. It's so great to be back in Iowa. You know, we have great memories here of the many trips now that we've been blessed to take here. You know, of course, the '08 campaign. And then the even more fun Tea Party rally that we had in Indianola – that was fun. We've had…oh gosh…chowing down on fried everything at your state fair, of course. And then, one year, thinking that, a bit after the fair, I was going to work some of it off, […]