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Pat Schroeder
Speeches
Running for Office as a Woman - June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008
When I looked at running for president, it was a very different time. There were whole parts of the country where a woman had never been elected to anything, I mean, even school board. As I traveled around the country, I was like this great traveling novelty act. My very favorite question, invariably at every one of these places, a journalist you figure has been to school always asks is, why are you running as a woman? I always kind of tilt my mic away. Carolyn knows me, I had […]
Pat Schroeder
Speeches
AHA 2008 - Jan. 4, 2008
January 4, 2008
And getting funding for breast cancer was a huge fight. We passed it unanimously in both the House and Senate three times. If you remember, if the House and Senate both pass something, how did it disappear? It always disappeared in the conference. Finally a group of us went to the conference committee and, of course, we were really quite upset. They tried to figure out how to throw us out, and of course, no sergeant at arms wants to come in and throw other members out of a conference […]
Pat Schroeder
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
24 Years of House Work, and the Place is Still a Mess - April 29, 2011
April 29, 2011
Schroeder gave this speech at Vanderbilt University. Thanks so much, Ann [Cook Calhoun], and thank you, Dean [Connie Venita Dowell], and thank all of you. I am absolutely amazed on a Friday afternoon as beautiful as this there is anyone in this room. So thank you all for being here. I must also say for those of you who are tied to the library, one of the other things the English Speaking Union does is we have the Ambassador Book Awards every year. And as you well know, all of […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks to Greenville County Republican Women- Sept. 24, 2015
September 24, 2015
Fiorina gave this address at the Poinsett Club. Thank you very much it's wonderful to be with you and thank you for the warm introduction and the warm escort. I’m so honored to be sitting between Betty and Vivian. Or as you like to say here in South Carolina, Miss Betty and Miss Vivian, and I'm happy to be known as Miss Carly. I think you all are going to eat lunch while I speak so please don't be afraid to eat while I talk. I’ll talk hopefully for not […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the Sunshine Summit- Nov. 11, 2015
November 14, 2015
Thank you so much. Thank you for that great Sunshine Summit Welcome. You guys got a lot of passion and spirit to be here on a beautiful Saturday afternoon after two days of speeches. Thank you for that very warm welcome, and for hanging in here all the way through the end of the day. Thank you. Ladies and Gentleman, we have much to be proud of as republicans, but today actually, like all of you, I am very angry. I am heartsick and I am heartbroken at the carnage […]
Shirley Chisholm
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
A Coalition of Conscience - Oct. 3, 1983
October 3, 1983
Chisholm gave this speech at Greenfield High School. Thank you very much. I am very glad to be here this evening. I think it is important that as we look around ourselves in the world today, there are so many complex, complicated problems, and the time has come that somehow we must be able to utilize our creative energies in a positive manner and work together for the amelioration of the human condition. It matters not whether you are white or black, whether you are male or female, but that […]
Margot Wallström
Speeches
Remarks With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - Jan. 29, 2015
January 29, 2015
SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Very pleased to welcome the Foreign Minister of Sweden Margot Wallstrom, and very happy to have a strong partner visiting this morning in so many different respects. Sweden is helping on Ebola, standing the line on Ukraine, providing critical humanitarian assistance in our struggle in the Middle East with ISIS and Syria, and is a powerful supporter of the concept of a trade agreement – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP, as we call it, supportive of that. So we really […]
Jackie Speier
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Seeking united call to action to pass ERA - July 24, 2015
July 24, 2015
SPEIER: On the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, Alice Paul first announced a new constitutional amendment. It was then entitled the Lucretia Mott amendment, as she called it. It is the Equal Rights Amendment. And it’s been introduced every session of congress from 1923-1972. Thirty-five states have ratified the ERA before the deadline, leaving us just three states short. We are still fighting to get women into the constitution, 91 years after the ERA was first introduced, and 166 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. To the women […]
Carolyn B Maloney
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Seeking united call to action to pass ERA - July 24, 2015
July 24, 2015
SPEIER: On the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, Alice Paul first announced a new constitutional amendment. It was then entitled the Lucretia Mott amendment, as she called it. It is the Equal Rights Amendment. And it’s been introduced every session of congress from 1923-1972. Thirty-five states have ratified the ERA before the deadline, leaving us just three states short. We are still fighting to get women into the constitution, 91 years after the ERA was first introduced, and 166 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. To the women […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Lecture, Speeches
A Voice For Freedom- Dec. 10, 2011
December 10, 2011
Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Nobel Laureates, my brothers and sisters: On behalf of all the women of Liberia, the women of Africa, and women everywhere in the world who have struggled for peace, justice and equality, I accept with great humility the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace. I am particularly honored to be a successor to the several sons and one daughter of Africa who have stood on this stage – Chief Albert John Lutuli, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de […]