Speeches / page 5

Jill Biden
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Mesa Community College Commencement Address - May 11, 2024
May 11, 2024
Thank you, President Britt. Good morning – I am honored to be with all of you today. “You shouldn’t go to college.” That’s what my high school guidance counselor told me. I was crushed. His assessment was that I wasn’t college material. He said, “if you don’t really know what you want to do next, college just isn’t right for you. You shouldn’t waste your time.” My whole life, I’d wanted to go to college. And now the person who was supposed to guide me there was saying that I […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Motion to Vacate – May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green introduced a motion to vacate the chair in an effort to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. The motion failed when a majority of the members voted to table it. REP. GREENE: Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Clause 2-A-1 of Rule 19, I seek recognition to give intent to raise questions of the privileges of the House. The form of the resolution is as follows. Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant. [boos from the chamber] This is […]
Giorgia Meloni
Speeches
Speech at the Budapest Demographic Summit - ‘Family is the key to security’ session - Sept.14, 2023
September 13, 2023
Good morning everyone, I obviously have to thank Katalin Novák, who is a fighter too. She is a great mother and a very good and great politician too and she is a friend of mine, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been a good friend of mine for many years. I also want to bring my due greetings to all the authorities, to President Radev, and to Vice President Mpango. I think today we have an important opportunity to discuss a number of issues that Italy considers key not just […]
Giorgia Meloni
Speeches
Speech at the 78th United Nations General Assembly - Sept. 20, 2023
September 20, 2023
TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN. Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honor for me to represent Italy before this General Assembly of the United Nations. An honor that is, however, not light like privilege, but heavy like the weight of responsibility. We are living in complex times, of continuous emergencies and change, and we cannot afford the luxury of words of circumstance, of lofty principles that have never been realized, of easy choices in the place of the right ones. We need to look back at the […]
Portia Simpson Miller
Speeches
Address at the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community - July 4, 2012
July 4, 2012
Chairman of the Conference, Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, Colleague Heads of State and Government; Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community; Special Guests; Heads of other Regional organizations and institutions; Distinguished ladies and gentlemen; Good morning. I am delighted to be back at my first Regular Session of the Conference of Heads since 2007. It is good to be back among colleagues and friends. I begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to you, Prime Minister Anthony and to the Government and People of St. Lucia, for the very warm and generous hospitality […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio Address for the National Council of Women – Jan. 25, 1935
January 25, 1935
The following transcript contains two versions of this address. The National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, composed of eleven women's national organizations, has been celebrating its tenth anniversary this week in Washington. The Committee's constituents number approximately six millions of women. These women are learning about war: what it means; what starts it; and what it costs. The Committee has held ten annual conferences at which 270 addresses have been made by distinguished students of the war problem, followed by questions and discussions. Two hundred subjects have […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio Address - December 1930
December 1, 1930
The United States Senate in 1926 applied for membership in the World Court with five reservations. Other nation members of the court have granted these conditions and the President has passed on the protocol of accession to the Senate. No excuse now exists for the United States to remain out of the Court. Millions of American women are urging early and favorable action since they prefer courts and wise judges to battleships and destructive guns when and if a dispute arises. The World Court is an American idea, having been […]
Barbara P Bush
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at University of Pennsylvania - May 14, 1990
May 14, 1990
Thank you very, very much. Thank you very much, Provost Aiken, President Hackney, my very good friends Walter and Lee Annenberg. You know, like Ben Franklin, both Walter and Lee served as distinguished American Ambassadors. And like Franklin, both are great patrons of Pennsylvania. And like Franklin, half the things on the Penn campus are named after them. I want to congratulate also the families and the friends and the fans of all the students, and most of all, the University of Pennsylvania Class of 1990. I'm thrilled to be […]
Pat Schroeder
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Speech at the University of Pennsylvania - May 16, 1988
May 16, 1988
I remember being on the other side of this podium 27 years ago, sure that graduation speeches were though[t] up by the faculty who want you to sit through just one more lecture before getting your diploma. Congratulations to the graduating class of 1988. The diploma you have earned is quite an achievement. But as a parent of a son who is graduating from college this month, I want to also commend your families. They stood by you during your first exams, muffled their complaints when they got that huge […]
Portia Simpson Miller
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the Conferment of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws - Sept. 30, 2017
September 30, 2017
Simpson Miller gave this address at a special convocation held to confer on her the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of the West Indies. Chancellor Robert Bermudez Vice Chancellor sir Hilary Beckles and Lady Beckles Members of the senior management of the university Members of the faculty And I want to recognize the presence of my colleagues here this evening. I think it would take a long time for me to mention them by name. University stakeholders Members of government Members of the private sector, […]