Speeches / page 5

Grace Meng
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
Generations of women fought for our rights. Our right to vote, our right to financial independence, and our right to reproductive freedom. Our mothers and grandmothers marched for us. Because of them, my husband and I were able to choose if and when to start a family. And we have two energetic boys running around at home. Now it is our turn to take the torch for our children and grandchildren. All across our country, women are being denied life-saving health care and the right to determine their futures. And […]
Tammy S Baldwin
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
Hey, Wisconsin! Tonight, I want to talk about family. We know that all families don't look alike. My mother was a teenager when I was born, and she struggled with addiction. I never met my father. But I had two incredible grandparents who stepped in and raised me, David and Doris Green. Everything I know, I learned from them. In every way a child needs, my grandparents were there for me. And as they grew older, it was my privilege to be there for them. So when I work to […]
Marcia L Fudge
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
Kamala Harris has fought to protect homeowners and renters her entire career. As attorney general, she held big banks accountable for their role in the foreclosure crisis and won billions of dollars for California homeowners. As vice president, she and President Biden helped over 400,000 homeowners at the risk of foreclosure during the pandemic. And as president, she will build three million new homes and rentals, limit unfair rent increases, and offer down payment support for first-time home buyers. It's personal. Kamala remembers her mother's pride at buying their first […]
Katherine Clark
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
I am a proud mom of three. And when my kids were young, I sat down with my husband to go over our bills. We realized that my entire income went to paying for childcare. We asked ourselves, how on earth will we make this work? So many parents will tell you a similar story. They'll tell you that preschool can cost as much as rent or that they drive over an hour just to find childcare. They'll tell you that the workers who watch their children have it even […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
[1.25-minute standing ovation] You know what I love best about Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris can't be bought, and she can't be bossed around. [cheers] Now, I first met Kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. The banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people, and stolen homes. Millions of Americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. Now, I was setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—go CFPB! [cheers]. Kamala was protecting families as California's attorney general. You bet. And Donald was scamming students at Trump University […]
Elissa Slotkin
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
Good evening. I'm Elissa Slotkin. I am honored to be your U.S. Senate nominee from the great state of Michigan. Go Blue! Go Green! My peeps, from Michigan. My life in service began in New York City on September 11. As the smoke cleared, I knew my career would be spent protecting the country we all love. I was recruited by the CIA and served three tours in Iraq alongside our military. And I worked at the White House under presidents of both parties and as an acting assistant secretary […]
Maura Healey
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
For the people. Those three words define the role of a prosecutor. To serve not only our clients in the courtroom, but our community and our country. To give people a sense of security and safeguard the principles that hold our nation together. To stand up to abusers and bullies and stand up for the voiceless and the vulnerable. In other words, exactly what Kamala Harris has done her whole life. When she was DA, mothers of children who'd been murdered, whose cases had gone cold, would come to her […]
Debra Haaland
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
[speaking first in Keres] In my Keres language—greetings, friends and family. My name is Crushed Turquoise, and I'm from the Turquoise Clan. [cheers] Thirty-five generations ago, my ancestors built lives in the high desert of New Mexico. I am on this stage tonight because of them. While fishing with my dad and running through the desert with my cousins, I learned that we have a responsibility to take care of our planet. [applause] Donald Trump never learned that lesson. He called the climate crisis a hoax. [boos] He made it […]
Gretchen Whitmer
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
I'm Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In Lansing, they call me governor. But in Detroit they call me Big Gretch. [cheers] Donald Trump called me “that woman from Michigan” as an insult. Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor. [cheers] Like women across America, we just GSD—get stuff done. [cheers] At 29. I joined the sandwich generation. Sandwiched between working and raising my newborn and caring for my mom, who was dying from brain cancer. It was hard. But not extraordinary. It's life. Those nights reminded me who I […]
Gabrielle Giffords
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 21, 2024
Hello, fellow Americans! [cheers] I’m Gabby Giffords. I was born in the great state of Arizona. [cheers] I was born with grit. I grew up racing motorcycles, mucking stalls, and exploring the beautiful desert. I fell for an astronaut. [cheers] For five years, I served in Congress from a swing district. Everybody called me a rising star, then on January 8, 2011, a man tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people. He killed six—terrible, terrible day. I almost died, but I fought for life and I survived. [cheers] I […]