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Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
The Hobby Lobby Decision- July 15, 2014
July 15, 2014
Republicans are on the attack, once again trying to put women’s fundamental rights on the chopping block. I stand alongside my colleagues to fight back. Senator Patty Murray of Washington, Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, and forty other Senators have stood up to sponsor new legislation to reverse the Supreme Court’s shocking decision in Hobby Lobby, where the Court gave corporations the power to deny their employees access to birth control. We will vote on our legislation tomorrow morning, and I urge my colleagues to pass it without delay. Right […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Tragedy in Boston- April 17, 2013
April 17, 2013
Mr. President, I rise today to give my first speech from the floor of the United States Senate. I rise with a heart heavy with mourning, but I also rise with the gratitude of a fearless people – gratitude for the nation’s prayers, strength, and resolve. Two days ago, there was a cowardly and despicable terrorist attack in the city of Boston. Two times, blasts from hidden bombs rocked the streets of Copley Square. Two times, courageous Bostonians ran toward danger to help their fellow citizens. Three were killed. More […]
Elena Kagan
Speeches
Supreme Court Nomination Speech - May 10, 2010
May 10, 2010
Kagan's remarks begin at 8:50 in the video. Thank you, Mr. President. I am honored and I am humbled by this nomination and by the confidence you have shown in me. During the last year as I have served as Solicitor General, my longstanding appreciation for the Supreme Court’s role in our constitutional democracy has become ever deeper and richer. The Court is an extraordinary institution in the work it does and in the work it can do for the American people by advancing the tenets of our Constitution, by […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Speeches
Supreme Court Nomination Speech - June 14, 1993
June 14, 1993
Mr. President, I am grateful beyond measure for the confidence you have placed in me, and I will strive with all that I have to live up to your expectations in making this appointment. I appreciate, too, the special caring of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the more so because I do not actually know the senator. I was born and brought up in New York, the state Senator Moynihan represents, and he was the very first person to call with good wishes when President Carter nominated me in 1980 this […]
Nancy Wyman
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign speech lieutenant governor - May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010
It is great. Let me just say thanks to you all for being here today. We really do appreciate you coming out. I want to thank, of course, my family that is here today, my husband Mike, my daughters Stacy and Merrill, and Stacy’s husband, my son, Steve, and two of my closest friends, who I must admit, we’ve gone back for well over 35 years together, and that is Cathy Decker and Chris Hutton. Thank you for being here. Chris Hutton is also the person that does the treasury […]
Tsai Ing-wen
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Tsai Ing-wen 2016: Taiwan Faces the Future - Jun. 3, 2016
June 3, 2016
Thank you, Bonnie, for your introduction and to CSIS for welcoming me into your magnificent new building. Mr. Burkhardt, Mr. Campbell, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and members of the media, It is wonderful to be in Washington, DC again. It is my great honor and pleasure to meet all of you today. I am truly grateful to the fellows and staff at CSIS for making this event possible. On April 15 this year, the Democratic Progressive Party nominated me as its presidential candidate for the 2016 elections. I am […]
Diana Princess of Wales
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Responding To Landmines: A Modern Tragedy And Its Consequences- June 12, 1997
June 12, 1997
Keynote address at a one-day seminar co-hosted by the Mines Advisory Group and the Landmine Survivors Network. Ladies and Gentlemen, I must begin by saying how warmly I welcome this conference on landmines convened by the Mines Advisory Group and the Landmines Survivors' Network. It is so welcome because the world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth. Indeed, until my journey to Angola early this year - on which I am […]
Sonia Sotomayor
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
NYU Commencement Address - May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
Justice Sotomayor, NYU's 2012 Commencement speaker, received a Doctor of Laws degree, honoris causa, at the ceremony. Her address begins at 5:29 in the video. This is awesome. [applause] There are graduates, families and friends here today from all 50 states and from around the world. I suspect that having this ceremony at Yankee Stadium may not be so meaningful for the many of you who are not from New York, or the few misguided of you, like David Brooks, who root for the Mets. [laughter and applause] But as […]
Sonia Sotomayor
Speeches
Supreme Court Nomination Speech - May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009
Sotomayor's remarks begin at 11:42 in the video. I was just counseled not to be nervous. That's almost impossible. Thank you, Mr. President, for the most humbling honor of my life. You have nominated me to serve on the country's highest court, and I am deeply moved. I could not, in the few minutes I have today, mention the names of the many friends and family who have guided and supported me throughout my life, and who have been instrumental in helping me realize my dreams. I see many of […]
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Kansas State University Commencement Address - May 15, 2015
May 15, 2016
Former U.S. Senator from Kansas, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, delivered the commencement speech at the Kansas State University Graduate School commencement ceremony. Baker's speech begins at 46:30 in the video. Thank you, President Schulz, thank you, Provost Mason, and thank you Dean Shanklin. Distinguished platform members, proud parents and family, and special graduates of the class of 2015. You worked hard to get your degrees today. I'm riding—and proud to be riding—on your coattails in the class of 2015. I suppose it would be best just to say—after all of the […]