AROUND THE WORLD IN RHETORIC

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VITAL SPEECHES OF RECENT WEEKS

Jun 11, 2025
"When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all of us. This is about you."
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Governor, California
May 15, 2025
"Today we no longer need to ask: Did 8 May free us? What we need to ask is: How can we stay free?"
FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER
FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER, President, Germany
Mar 07, 2025
Europeans are emerging from denial. In a single day in Munich, they understood that Ukraine’s survival and Europe’s future are in their hands.
Claude Malhuret
Claude Malhuret, French Senator
Feb 20, 2025
"After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities—once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends—after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face—what comes next?"
J.B. Pritzker
J.B. Pritzker, Governor, Illinois
Feb 12, 2025
How can we seem indifferent when stakeholders are passionate about—and often personally invested in—social issues, including human rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights? … How can any organization argue that any of this is not core to what they do, or who they are?
Gary Sheffer
Gary Sheffer, Public Relations Executive and Professor
Aug 29, 2024
In your case, your weapons are your performances. In your case, your weapons are your records. In your case, your weapons are the emotions of sport.
Tony Estanguet
Tony Estanguet, President, Paris 20204 Organizing Committee
May 22, 2024
"Listen: If Harriet Tubman ran to freedom, you can run to your destiny! Martin Luther King didn't march for you to get a degree and chill! ... Black folks didn't pick cotton so you could look cute in a black robe!"
Daniel Black
Daniel Black, African American Studies Professor, Clark Atlanta University
Mar 20, 2024
Many of us have been saying for a long time that the world has been trying to transition in fog, without a compass, on a road to nowhere. Consumers increasingly agree, as transition realities bite.
Amin H. Nasser
Amin H. Nasser, CEO, Saudi Aramco
Mar 06, 2024
"What draws you to your favorite song, your favorite book? It's what makes you feel. The seriousness of it. The intensity of it."
Jason Kelce
Jason Kelce, Professional Football Player
Feb 21, 2024
"We don’t anoint kings in this country. We have elections. And Donald Trump, of all people, should know we don’t rig elections."
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley, Republican Presidential Candidate