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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Ritz Carlton Washington, DC November 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very, very much, Karen. “Under the weather” is a polite word for the crud. (Laughter.) Anyway, thank you, Karen, for a wonderful introduction. And it’s with great pride that I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) Shh. It’s a little dangerous right now. (Laughter.) I am suffering from a bunch of grandchildren, all of whom are sniveling at...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Rice University Houston, Texas April 26, 2016 MR LEEBRON: Good evening, and welcome to this wonderful venue at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. We are thrilled to be hosting such a remarkable event tonight and thankful to Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy for making it possible. We are very grateful to Secretary Kerry for choosing the Baker Institute for his address this evening, and we welcome him warmly to Rice University. ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan October 31, 2015 FOREIGN MINISTER ABDYLDAEV: (Via interpreter) Good evening, dear representatives of mass media. Negotiations between the State Secretary, Mr. John Kerry, with the president have finished. And before that we had bilateral negotiations. Immediately I would like to give the floor to our guest, Mr. Secretary of State of U.S., Mr. John Kerry, please. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Mr. Foreign Minister Erlan, my friend, I thank you very much f...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 28, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you all very, very much. Bill, thanks so much for welcoming me to your new home, but thank you for remarkably generous comments. I’m very, really touched to hear them from somebody of Bill’s caliber, because as all of you know, he really was the State Department’s premier career diplomat par excellence to everybody’s standard. And now that you’ve bee...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC November 17, 2014 Thank you. David, thank you very much. Thank you all. Good morning to you. I’m delighted to have a chance to be able to be here and appreciate the breadth of what you all are going to be tackling over the course of the day, so I particularly am grateful. David, thank you for – everyone – rearranging schedules so that we could flip this around today, literally leaving straight from here to go to th...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC June 18, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very, very much. I want to begin by begging your forgiveness. I’m later than I have been, I think, at any moment, and it is simply because today the world could care less about the Secretary of State’s schedule, and I apologize profusely to everybody. This is a very, very special occasion for a lot of different reasons, but it’s special, and whether it&r...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 QUESTION: Well, Secretary Clinton, this is your – first of all, thank you for letting us come and talk to you. SECRETARY CLINTON: Of course. I’m so happy to see you again. QUESTION: This is your last television interview as Secretary of State. SECRETARY CLINTON: Hard to believe, Cynthia. It feels like the time has just flown by. QUESTION: In Moscow three years ago, you told me, “I have absolutely no int...

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Townhall Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Newseum Washington, DC January 29, 2013 Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . MS. SALES: Hello. I’m Leigh Sales from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Welcome to this town hall-style event with the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has her last day at the State Department this Friday. This is a town hall with a difference though because we have people all around the world ready to ask to questions from Britain to...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State East-West Center Honolulu, HI November 10, 2011 DR. MORRISON: Aloha. AUDIENCE: Aloha. DR. MORRISON: How do you introduce the Secretary of State? And I think the first thing I think of as a public servant, we sometimes hear the word public servant spoken in a kind of derogatory tone. But the public servants that I’ve known, the members of our state and local government, members of our Congress, members of the international community, with a lot of v...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Intercontinental Hotel New York City September 19, 2011 Moderated by Nick Kristof MODERATOR:  Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States; Nick Kristof, moderator and columnist for The New York Times; Reema Nanavaty, director for economic and rural development for the Self-Employed Women’s Association; Paul Polman, chief executive officer of Unilever; His Excel...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton    Secretary of State Rajiv Shah    USAID Administrator Ronald Reagan Building Washington, DC December 17, 2010 MR. STEINBERG: Thank you for that welcome and thank you for coming to the program here today. I’m Don Steinberg and it’s my pleasure to introduce today’s proceedings to mark the release of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Defense Review, or QDDR. SECRETARY CLINTON: Development. (Laughter.) MR. STEINBERG: Hmm. (Laughter.) Le...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Christchurch, New Zealand November 5, 2010 QUESTION: Well, Secretary Clinton, thank you very much for making time for us. We really appreciate that. The headline that you created in one New Zealand newspaper was “Clinton Crushes 25 Years of Ice.” SECRETARY CLINTON: (Laughter.) QUESTION: Do you feel that that is what happened yesterday? SECRETARY CLINTON: I think we’ve always had a very close relationship on so many issues, and it was ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Christchurch, New Zealand November 5, 2010 MODERATOR: Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Therese Arsenau. I’m from the University of Canterbury. And I have to say I have a very easy job this afternoon. I’m introducing a woman who needs absolutely no introduction. It’s fair to say that Mrs. Clinton has been at the very heart of American political power and a political heavyweight for two decades, and she’s now brought these incredible...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State International Islamic University of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 2, 2010 MR. ISKANDER: Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together and welcome Her Excellency, the United States Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Applause.) Okay. (In Malaysian.) A very good afternoon to all. First of all, thank you very much for being here. And today is a very, very historical day for everyone, especially for us. We have the honorable g...

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Address Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Via Digital Video Conference December 9, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Well, I am delighted to join you by satellite. I wish I could be there in person with all of you. But I want to thank you for coming together on behalf of this very important cause and mission and event. And I, of course, want to thank my friend, Allida Black, for this beautiful award, for everything that Professor Black has done and will do on behalf of women and girls, and in p...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Goldenberg Mansion Manila, Philippines November 12, 2009 FOREIGN SECRETARY ROMULO: Thank you all for joining us this afternoon. It is my privilege to welcome Secretary Hillary Clinton to Manila. She was here as First Lady with President Bill Clinton during our hosting of APEC in 1996, and this time she is here as the U.S. Secretary of State. In the issue that just came out, Time calls the Secretary the most powerful U.S. public diplomat in quite some tim...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Islamabad, Pakistan October 30, 2009   SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everyone. (Applause.)   MODERATOR: The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, everyone.   SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you.   MODERATOR: I think you have a mike?   SECRETARY CLINTON: I have a mike on.   MODERATOR: Yeah.   SECRETARY CLINTON: Okay, good.   MODERATOR: Thank you so much for being here.   SECRETARY CLINTON: I apologize for being late....

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State United Nations Headquarters New York City September 30, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: The 6,195 th meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is before the Council in document S/Agenda 6,195, which reads, and I quote: “Women and Peace and Security,” end of quote. Unless I hear any objection, I shall consider the agenda adopted. The agenda is adopted.   I should like to inform the Council that I ...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York, NY September 26, 2009 ( A short film produced by the Department of State on the United States’ Commitment to Global Food Security is shown .) (Applause.) SECRETARY GENERAL BAN: Honorable Secretary of State Clinton, President Kagame, Prime Minister Hasina, distinguished heads of state and government, honorable ministers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to welcome you to this important event, a...

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Remarks Event hosted by the Government of the Netherlands New York City September 25, 2009 I want to start by saying something that I believe with all my heart, and, obviously, those of you who are here believe it also, that the issues related to girls and women are not an annex to the important business of the world and the United Nations, they’re not an add-on, they’re not an afterthought; they are truly at the core of what we are attempting to do under the Universal Declaration of Human R...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York, NY September 24, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much. I was stuck in traffic because so many heads of state and heads of government are leaving to go to Pittsburgh, so I was at the United Nations for a meeting and just – all traffic stopped, so I saw several of the (inaudible) that are on their way to this lunch standing there also. So (inaudible) go ahead and get started so that &...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Presidential Guest House Pretoria, South Africa August 7, 2009 MODERATOR: Madame Minister, good morning. Secretary of State Madame Clinton, Madame Minister Mashabane, we welcome you to this gathering of the media during Women's Month. Without further ado, we will now hand over to Minister Nkoana-Mashabane to make her remarks, followed by Madame Clinton. MINISTER NKOANA-MASHABANE: Well, thank you very much. Once again, welcome to South Africa. We had very...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC July 31, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon, and thank you very much for being here. It is a pleasure for me to welcome His Royal Highness Prince Saud here back to the State Department, a building he has spent more time in than I have. (Laughter.) So it’s a delight and an honor.   I think it is so self-evident but bears repeating that Saudi Arabia has been a close friend and ally of the United States for ma...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Beijing, China February 21, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER YANG: (Via interpreter.) Madame Secretary, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to meet you. First of all, I want to once again welcome Secretary Clinton to China. Just now, Secretary Clinton and I had an in-depth exchange of views on China-U.S. relations on a wide range of issues of mutual interest. The talks were constructive, a...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Roundtable With Traveling Press Seoul, South Korea February 20, 2009 MR. WOOD : Madame Secretary, I'll turn it over to you. SECRETARY CLINTON : Oh, thank you, Robert. Well, what is there left to say? (Laughter.) QUESTION: : I have a question. SECRETARY CLINTON : I feel like we've been living together for days and days. Yes. QUESTION: : I have a question about what you've learned about the role of Secretary of State on this trip,...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Town Hall Meeting at Ewha Women's University Seoul, South Korea February 20, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon. (cheers and applause) Thank you so much, President Lee. I am honored to be here at this great university. I wish to thank also Chairperson (inaudible) and the more than 107,000 alumni at this great school. Standing up with me was our Ambassador Kathy Stephens, who has told me that more than 50 graduates of Ewha Wo...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State En Route Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea February 19, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, we're half way through our trip, and I just wanted to give you a sense of what's next in Korea, and then I think we have time set for tomorrow afternoon to get together to have a conversation as well. We've had kind of a two-day or two-country experience with what I believe are the elements of smart power, if you look at the many tools for ...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Interview With Yuko Ando of Fuji TV Tokyo, Japan February 17, 2009 QUESTION: I understand you just met the abduction victim’s family members, right? SECRETARY CLINTON: I did. QUESTION: And what are your impressions and the thoughts on ways to move on? Did the meeting refresh your conviction to solve this problem? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I was honored to meet with the family members and to hear their story, to see pictures of a missing sister and...

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Remarks at the Women's Foreign Policy Group Annual Luncheon Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 10, 2007 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Well, thank you very much. And thank you, Ann, for that kind introduction. And I just want to say that it is true that we had an ambassador named Tom Korologos in Belgium who was very, very successful, but we also had Ann McLaughlin, and that made it terrific for the United States of America. So thank you for your service on behalf of the country. (Applause.)...

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Interview with Mark Haines and Erin Burnett of CNBC Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York Stock Exchange New York City September 24, 2007 (9:29 a.m. EDT) QUESTION: Welcome back. 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly gets underway this week; tensions around the globe rising, war in Iraq, stalemate with Iran over their nuclear intentions, still in the background, North Korea, although we haven't heard from them lately, plus the constant saber-rattling from Venezuelan President Chavez. Joining us exclusive...

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Remarks With Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik Secretary Condoleezza Rice Vienna, Austria May 31, 2007 MODERATOR: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to today's press briefing at the meeting of the Women's Empowerment Network. The Austrian Minister of International and European Affairs Ursula Plassnik and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will inform you about the meeting, after which we'll have the possibility to briefly ask questions. Foreign Minister, may I ask you? FOREIGN MINISTER PLASSNIK: Th...

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Interview With Zain Verjee, CNN Secretary Condoleezza Rice Potsdam, Germany May 30, 2007 QUESTION:   Secretary Rice, lovely to be with you here. SECRETARY RICE:   Good to be with you. QUESTION:   Such an historic place. SECRETARY RICE:   Historic and just beautiful. QUESTION:   You're looking at a third round of sanctions on Iran, but yet Iran is showing no sign of suspending uranium enrichment.  What makes you think that a third round of sanctions is really going to make a...

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Briefing En Route Berlin, Germany Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Berlin, Germany May 29, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: Well, we're off for a G-8 meeting and as is the custom with these G-8 meetings, it really gives an opportunity for foreign ministers both to preview what the heads of state will be doing at the G-8 starting on June the 6th, but also it's almost always the case that we spend a good deal of time on whatever the major issues are of the day. So I would expect that we'll talk about Darfur, about...

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Remarks With Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer at the Ronald Reagan Library Secretary Condoleezza Rice Simi Valley, California May 23, 2007 View Video (2:00 p.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Mrs. Reagan has been a wonderful supporter and friend. Thank you for that, Mrs. Reagan. But she and the man that she called Ronnie shared a truly special relationship, and we here in America are gaining a fuller portrait of that affection. President Reagan's diaries have just been released and published, and in t...

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Prepared Statement for the Record on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC May 15, 2001 As Delivered As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002. This Budget represents a needed increase in the Dep...

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Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks at Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee Washington, DC April 27, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Well, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen for that warm welcome, and welcome to the State Department this morning. And Henry, I thank you for your most kind and generous introduction, and I congratulate you, sir, on the time and attention to the problems of young people, young people who in this great land of ours with all ...

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Interview on ABC's 'This Week' Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC February 4, 2001 Interview by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts MS. ROBERTS : Welcome to the program. We have a very special program on store for you today. MR. DONALDSON : Absolutely. The Secretary of State Colin Powell in his first interview since taking office. Welcome, Mr. Secretary, nice to see you. SECRETARY POWELL : It's good to see you, Sam. Cokie, good to be here. MR. DONALDSON : Well, most of us have called you "General" all...

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