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Elizabeth Dole
categories: Campaign Speech, Concession Speech, Speeches
Concession speech - Nov. 3, 2008
November 3, 2008
Senator Elizabeth Dole concedes to Senator-elect Kay Hagan in the 2008 North Carolina U.S. Senate race. [cheering] Wow. It's hard to see you all, but I know there are lots of friends out there. [cheering] Wow, thank you so much. [cheering] My goodness. Let me just say first of all—I love each and every one of you. Thank you for being here tonight. All these great friends and family members and colleagues. Hard, hard workers—thank you. And the first thing I want to say tonight is to thank my husband, […]
Elizabeth Dole
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Trevecca Nazarene University - Sept. 15, 2011
September 15, 2011
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that wonderful warm welcome. And Dr. Guenther thank you for your extremely kind words of introduction. Ladies and gentlemen it is such a privilege to be with you today, and to join Dr. Gunter—both Dr. Gunters, Nina and Moody- and Dr. and Mrs. Boone, Dr. Tim Green, and all of you, the students, faculty and members of the Trevecca Nazarene community. And I want to say it is a great pleasure to meet many of Dr. Gunters' family members today too; we […]
Pat Schroeder
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
On Running for President - May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008
This is an excerpt from a speech at Woody Tanger Auditorium in the Brooklyn College Library. But in 1988, I looked at running for president. I keep thinking how I always thought that the world was changing so much faster than it was. That’s probably the biggest mistake I’ve always made in my life. When I got elected in ’73, I asked the Library of Congress how long it would be before half the house would be female, like the population. And the answer was 425 years, and I thought, […]
Carol Moseley Braun
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
A Woman President: If Not Now, When? - Feb. 7, 2006
February 7, 2006
Thank you so very much. I want to thank the Dole Institute for inviting me today, and thank you very much, Jonathan, for the wonderful introduction. And I want to thank all of you for taking the time to visit with me today. I'd like to thank the chancellor, Chancellor Hemingway, to Bill Lacy, thank you for your remarks, and Rep. Ballard, thank you for taking me under your wing today and of course Allison, the paparazzi, over there. Everybody's been just wonderful today, and it's been just a delightful […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches, Victory Speech
Kentucky Primary Victory Speech - May 20, 2008
May 20, 2008
Thank you all very, very much. I am so grateful for this victory, and I am so appreciative because tonight I'm thinking about why we're all here, and it's not just to win a primary or even just to win an election. What propels us is the struggle to realize America's promise, a nation where every child can achieve his or her God-given potential, where every man and woman has a fair chance, where we fulfill- where we fulfill the ideals our founders pledged their lives to defend, and our […]
Geraldine A Ferraro
categories: Debate, Speeches
1984 Vice Presidential Debate - Oct. 11, 1984
October 11, 1984
DOROTHY S. RIDINGS: Good evening from the Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm Dorothy Ridings, president of the League of Women Voters, the sponsor of tonight's vice-presidential debate between Republican George Bush and Democrat Geraldine Ferraro. Our panelists for tonight's debate are John Mashek, national correspondent for U.S. News & World Report; Jack White, correspondent for Time magazine; Norma Quarles, correspondent for NBC News; and Robert Boyd, Washington bureau chief for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Sander Vanocur, senior political correspondent for ABC News, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. VANOCUR: Thank you, Dorothy. […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Interview, Speeches
Joint Interview with President Obama - Jan. 27, 2013
January 27, 2013
This transcript is from the first part of a joint interview with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on CBS News' 60 Minutes. STEVE KROFT: There are few people we think we know more about then President Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and everyone has an opinion—about their politics, their marriages and a rivalry that is one of the richest in American history. On Friday we had the opportunity to sit down with the two of them, side by side. The White House […]
Barbara Mikulski
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Retirement Announcement - March 2, 2015
March 2, 2015
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, announces she will retire at the end of her term in 2016. I am pleased to be here again in Fells Point, where I have spent a big part of my life and to be joined by my colleague in the Senate, Senator Ben Cardin. This is the neighborhood where I've spent most of my life, where I've learned the values that have guided my life, and where important things have happened here. This is…we're right in the neighborhood, exactly in the path of the […]
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 […]