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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks at the US-Liberia Partnership Dialogue Signing Ceremony - Jan. 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
CLINTON: Well, welcome to the Treaty Room. I am delighted to have this occasion, once again, to host President Sirleaf, a very good partner over many years, and especially, I would say, over the last four years it has been a great personal pleasure for me to work with her to strengthen that partnership between the United States and Liberia. And I also am grateful, as well, for her personal friendship. Today, we are taking another important step to deepen the partnership between our nations and to support Liberia as […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
US-Liberia Partnership Dialogue Signing Ceremony - Jan. 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
CLINTON: Well, welcome to the Treaty Room. I am delighted to have this occasion, once again, to host President Sirleaf, a very good partner over many years, and especially, I would say, over the last four years it has been a great personal pleasure for me to work with her to strengthen that partnership between the United States and Liberia. And I also am grateful, as well, for her personal friendship. Today, we are taking another important step to deepen the partnership between our nations and to support Liberia as […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - Feb. 27, 2015
February 27, 2015
SIRLEAF: Mr. Secretary, I’d like to thank you for the opportunity to meet with you, to exchange views. I come also to express on behalf of the Liberian people our deep appreciation for the support which we have received as we continue to fight this deadly virus. We want to thank President Obama for the strong leadership which he has shown, for the call to action that he has made. We thank the Administration; we thank the Congress in a bipartisan way for the support they’ve given to the Administration’s […]
Alison Lundergan Grimes
categories: Campaign Speech, Concession Speech, Speeches
Concession Speech for 2014 Senate Race - Nov. 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
Grimes concedes to Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 U.S. Senate race. Thank you all very, very much. Well, good evening. Good evening. Sixteen months ago we began a journey, a journey to send a message that Washington just isn’t working for Kentucky, that we want to actually put the people of this state first instead of partisan politics. Along that journey, we showed this nation what the Commonwealth is truly capable of. Breaking records here in this state with our fundraising, leading the nation with our work to build […]
Martha McSally
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
A More Dangerous World than I've Ever Seen - Jul. 15, 2015
July 15, 2015
Thank you Madam Chair, and I really appreciate you organizing this, so that the women in our conference can speak about something that is vitally important to our communities. I’ll tell you, everywhere I go in my district my constituents are concerned about the security of our nation, and making sure that our men and women in uniform have everything they need in order to defend America. Having served 26 years in uniform myself, I'm representing a district eighty-five thousand veterans and two military bases. Right now we have over […]
Angela D Merkel
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address to the UK Parliament- Feb. 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
As delivered Mr Speaker, Lord Speaker, Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank both Houses of Parliament most sincerely for allowing me to stand before you today. I am aware of the very great honor bestowed on me: I am the third representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, following Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1970 and German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1986, to speak to you I regard this invitation as an expression of the close relations between […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Stand up to Right-Wing Assault on Women's Reproductive Rights Sept. 21, 2015
September 21, 2015
I'll be honest. I am deep down furious at the Republicans' scheme to defund Planned Parenthood. I didn't think that the Republican leadership could sink any lower than trying to defund women's cancer screenings and access to birth control, but then I saw the bill that were voting on tomorrow and I felt sick to my stomach. Here we are just days away from another reckless Republican government shutdown, and the Republicans think the best use of our time is to vote on a bill to give the government the […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
It's Time for Congress to Work for the American People, Not the NRA Oct. 8, 2015
October 8, 2015
Mister President, for twenty years one of the biggest billboards in America was next to Fenway Park, facing the Massachusetts Turnpike. It had a giant number counter on it, and when I was running for the Senate in 2012, I would drive past a billboard sometimes three or four times a day. And each time, I would look up at the counter to see how it changed since the last trip. Up two, up six, up 12. The billboard was from Stop Handgun Violence, and it showed the number of […]
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Speeches
Cathy McMorris Rodgers Supports H.R. 36- May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015
Madam Speaker, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are the rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The bill before the house today affirms what a majority of Americans believes. That over halfway through a pregnancy, an unborn baby deserves the full protection of the law and the constitution. As a mother of three and a legislator, I have always believed that every life has value. […]
Jaime Herrera Beutler
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
One-Minute of the Week - April 17, 2015
April 15, 2015
Thank you Mr. Chair. Today is Tax Day, April 15th. And one of the things that I wanted to bring attention to this committee really is the amount of waste and abuse that takes place, not only within the bloated federal government, within the IRS. I serve as the vice chair of financial services oversight committee on the appropriations committee, and on this last go around, we reduced, cut actually, by about one hundred to three million dollars, right? The IRS commissioner was before us to tell us that was […]