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Jeane J Kirkpatrick
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
'Blame America First' - Remarks at the 1984 Republican National Committee - Aug. 20, 1984
August 20, 1984
This is the Associated Press text of United Nations Representative Jeane J. Kirkpatrick's speech as delivered to the Republican National Convention. Thank you very much for that warm welcome. Thank you for inviting me. This is the first Republican Convention I have ever attended. I am grateful that you should invite me, a lifelong Democrat. On the other hand, I realize that you are inviting many lifelong Democrats to join this common cause. I want to begin tonight by quoting the speech of the president whom I very greatly admire, […]
Madeleine K Albright
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention - Aug. 27, 2008
August 27, 2008
For me, this week is a homecoming. Denver is the city that welcomed my family to the United States after we were driven from our native Czechoslovakia, first by Nazi storm troopers and then by communists. Denver is where I grew up believing in the American dream and in a country that, more than any other, is associated with truth, justice and freedom. In high school, I won the Rocky Mountain Empire Award for reciting, in alphabetical order, the 51 members of the United Nations. Back then, the task was […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 1996 Republican National Convention - Aug. 13, 1996
August 13, 1996
The great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." America is at a fork in the road, and we do have a choice. President Clinton will take us down the road of the past -- more government programs, higher taxes on hard-working Americans, the wrong road. Bob Dole and Jack Kemp will lead us in a new direction to a brighter, better America. A road to hope -- not just a small town in Arkansas, but a dream for every American. […]
Fannie Lou Hamer
Speeches
Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention - Aug. 22, 1964
August 22, 1964
Mr. Chairman, and to the Credentials Committee, my name is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and I live at 626 East Lafayette Street, Ruleville, Mississippi, Sunflower County, the home of Senator James O. Eastland, and Senator Stennis. It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. […]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Sept. 6, 2012
September 6, 2012
I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby. In 2008, I could see what eight years of top-down economics were doing to their future. And, like so many of you, I worked day in and day out. Together, we elected President Obama. When I addressed our convention that year, […]
Elaine L Chao
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2004 Republican National Convention - Sept. 1, 2004
September 1, 2004
Before I start, I have to give a very special hello to my home state delegation of Kentucky. It is so important, it is so exciting to be in New York. This is where I grew up and where my family still lives. And so I want to say a special hello also to my parents, my sisters, and my brothers-in-law who are here, also, with me. You know, when I was just a little girl, my father had a dream of a better life for our family that took […]
Jennifer M Granholm
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Sept. 6, 2012
September 6, 2012
Good evening, I'm Jennifer Granholm, from the great state of Michigan, where the trees are just the right height! Let me tell you a story about the dark days in my home state. Toward the end of my time as governor, Ford closed one of its biggest factories, a factory in Wixom, Michigan. The plant had employed over the years thousands of middle-class men and women in neighborhoods near—yet worlds away from—the place Mitt Romney was raised. When Ford's decision to close the factory hit, I went down to the […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Lost Educational Opportunities - March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing regarding lost educational opportunities in alternative settings. I would like to thank you all for being here today. And I thank you for traveling and spending the time with us. I think it is very important. The testimony that we heard, or I should say read, is very interesting. And I was meeting with my National PTA people upstairs before I came down here, and one of things that was on their agenda […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Preventing Child Abuse and Improving Responses to Families in Crisis - Nov. 5, 2009
November 5, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing to examine best practices to prevent child abuse and neglect, as well as how to strengthen and improve services for families in crisis. Good morning. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing. Today, we are dealing with a very difficult and upsetting subject--abuse and neglect--and we know sometimes, unfortunately, it results in fatalities. We will hear from witnesses on how to improve response for and prevent violence and abuse in […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Improving Child Nutrition Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity - May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing regarding Improving child nutrition programs to reduce childhood obesity. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing on how we can reduce childhood obesity through the Child Nutrition Reauthorization. As a nurse for over 30 years, I have seen firsthand the risks of illness that can result from obesity. In the last several months, I have read the studies that one in five 4-year-olds are obese, that kids have the arteries […]