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Elizabeth Dole
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Ohio State University Commencement Address - June 9, 1989
June 9, 1989
Remarks Prepared for Delivery Thank you very much, President Jennings. And thank you, members of the senior class--soon to be graduates--for inviting me to share this day with you and your families, and for honoring me with a degree from Ohio state. My husband wanted me to ask if the Honorary Degree entitles me to dot the "I" in script "Ohio" at a halftime this fall. If so, I start taking sousaphone lessons when I return to Washington. And President Bush asked me to pass along his best wishes to […]
Katherine Clark
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Framingham State University Commencement Address - May 23, 2021
May 23, 2021
Hello, I am thrilled to be part of today's celebration and humbled to receive the honorary Doctorate of Public Service. Thank you to Framingham State University, President Cevallos, faculty, and staff, who have invited me to be part of today's commencement ceremony. Welcome to family and friends. And most importantly, congratulations to our graduates! For you and your families, this will be a day to remember in a year to remember. While I think many rightfully want to put the last year and a half behind us, I want us […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Harvard Law School Class Day Address - May 27, 2021
May 27, 2021
This address was delivered virtually. Hello, Harvard class of 2021. I wish that we could be doing this in person to celebrate, but as we know it's just not possible right now. If we were together, I would tell a few jokes about Socratic teaching, and by now, knowing that you would never have to sit through another Socratic class again, you might even laugh. We would dress up. We would also take selfies. And I would have a chance to tell each one of you how happy I am […]
Stacey Abrams
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
University of Colorado Law School Commencement Address - May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021
This address was delivered via Zoom during the virtual commencement ceremony. Thank you so much, Wilson [Wilson D. Scarbeary, class treasurer]. Thank you to Dean [James] Anaya, to faculty, to family, to the administration and staff, and of course, to the graduates of 2021. Thank you all so much for having me, although I'm going to begin this with a little bit of a gripe. Emma [Emma W. Hancock, class president], you are from Georgia and you know that as the Southern hospitality rules go, you don't upstage your guests. […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate/Convocation Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at the U.S. Naval Academy - May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021
Good morning. Acting Secretary Thomas Harker, General David Berger, Admiral Mike Gilday—looking out at these midshipmen, I know we are all filled with pride. Vice Admiral Sean Buck, Captain TR Buchanan, faculty and staff—thank you for educating such a fine crew. Alumni—thank you for the support you have shown over these years to this great institution. And to my military aid, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Machniak, who graduated in 2004—I’m very proud to have you with me here today. Family and friends of these graduates—thank you for the sacrifices you have […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
House Floor Speech - May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021
I know the topic, Mr. Speaker, is cancel culture, I have some thoughts about that but tonight I rise to discuss freedom and our constitutional duty to protect it. Mr. Speaker, I have been privileged to see firsthand how powerful and how fragile freedom is. Twenty-eight years ago, I stood outside a polling place – a schoolhouse in western Kenya. Soldiers had chased away people who were lined up to vote. A few hours later they came streaming back in, risking further attack, undaunted in their determination to exercise their […]
Kamala Harris
Speeches
Derek Chauvin Verdict Remarks - April 20, 2021
April 20, 2021
Good evening. First, I want to thank the jury for their service and I want to thank Mr. Floyd's family for your steadfastness. Today we feel a sigh of relief. Still, it cannot take away the pain. A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice. This verdict brings us a step closer and the fact is we still have work to do, we still must reform the system. Last summer, together with Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass, I introduced the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I had the honor of appearing before you last August as woman voter when you very kindly received the delegation of woman voters who were meeting here in Washington. With your permission I will refer to a little discussion at that time and to a point which the committee made and which seemed to me at the moment well taken, that the Rules Committee had no power to appoint a committee on woman 's suffrage because of the fact that Congress did not […]
Ida Husted Harper
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Gentlemen, this is not the time or place to enter into an argument on the merits or demerits of woman suffrage, and we shall use the valuable hours you have so graciously accorded us simply to ask that you will give us a committee of our very own, before which we may feel that we have a right to discuss this question. In making this request we ask you to decide, first, whether the issue of woman suffrage is sufficiently national in its character to justify a special committee for […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Rules Committee, as I understand it, this hearing is not to be a forum for the discussion of the general question of woman suffrage but is to be confined to the one point for which this committee has appointed this time for discussion, namely, whether or not the Rules Committee shall recommend to Congress the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage for the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to give such of its time and attention to this question as […]