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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 MODERATOR: It is an honor to welcome a Secretary of State to the University of Chicago. It is part of the mission of the Institute of Politics to facilitate these kinds of opportunities for you to interact with practitioners and leaders, and so we’re really pleased on that account. But I – our other mission is somewhat larger than that, which is: We live in a somewhat dispirited time in our politics. I don’t know ...
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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State San Martin Palace Buenos Aires, Argentina August 4, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER MALCORRA: (Via interpretation, in progress) …to this press conference to be followed by a working lunch, which some ministers will be joining to expand on some of the items on our agenda. We have essentially – we have – hello? (Interruption to interpretation.) (Via interpretation, in progress) …meeting between the teams of the foreign ministry and the State...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Beijing, China June 7, 2016 VICE PREMIER WANG: (Via interpreter) Secretary Kerry (inaudible). (Inaudible) welcome to all of you. Welcome to this breakfast meeting. It is a feature of the S&ED program. We have this every year. I always believed that for us to participate in the S&ED, we need to stand high and also be down to earth...
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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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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 18, 2016 QUESTION: And with us now we’ve got the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for being with us this morning. We greatly appreciate it. SECRETARY KERRY: Glad to be with you, Joe. QUESTION: We talked earlier to the Washington Post , David Ignatius obviously relieved at the release of his colleague. But he was talking from Tel Aviv about great unease in Israel and across the entire Arab w...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, State Councilor Yang Jiechi Diayuotai State Guesthouse Beijing, China July 10, 2014 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Special representatives, friends of the business community, (inaudible) joining us in the Strategic and Economic Dialogue through a cultural performance, then the roundtable is a routine program of this cultural show. So I will first give the floor to State Councilor Yang Jiechi. STATE COUNCILOR YANG: (Via interpreter) Vic...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland November 24, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good very early morning to all of you. It’s been a long day and a long night, and I’m delighted to be here to share some thoughts with you about the recent negotiations. I particularly want to thank the Swiss Government. I want to thank the United Nations. It’s been a (inaudible) and we’re honored to be here, even at this very early hour of the morning. I particularly want to thank my colleagues from the U...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC November 21, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: What a pleasure to be here. Vice Premier Liu, we are really honored to have you here, and it’s a pleasure to see all of you here. I thank you so much for coming to join us for this consultation on people-to-people exchanges. This really is where the action is, and I am excited by the energy and I’m excited by the discussion. Madame Liu and I spent a littl...
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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Vice Premier Wang Yang Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC July 10, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody. I want to thank my good friend of almost 40-plus years, the Vice President of the United States, for coming today. I don’t think there’s ever been a Vice President who is as steeped in foreig...
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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State Grist Washington, DC June 19, 2013 Everywhere I travel as secretary of state – in every meeting, here at home and across the more than 100,000 miles I’ve traveled since I raised my hand and took the oath to serve in this office – I raise the concern of climate change. I do so not because it’s a pet issue or a personal priority, but because it’s critical to the survival of our civilization, and that means it’s a critical mission for ...
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Regions: Antarctica, China, Pakistan , Sweden , United Kingdom , United States
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Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC January 23, 2013 This video is available on YouTube with closed captions . Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you and the Ranking Member and members of the committee, both of longstanding tenure and brand new members, and I appreciate your patience for me to be able to come to fulfill my commitment to you, actually to the former chairwoman, that I would be here to dis...
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Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC January 23, 2013 This video is also available with closed captioning on YouTube . Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee, both older and new. I’m very grateful for this opportunity and I thank you very much for your patience to give me the chance to come and address these issues with you. As both the Chairman and the Ranking Member ha...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Pier Sixty at Chelsea Pier New York, NY December 16, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. (Applause.) Oh, my goodness. Well, if it ever were a secret. (Laughter.) Thank you, Marc, and thanks to all of you for being part of this evening to support such an extraordinary, important organization that is relied upon certainly across the world, and that includes the State Department. I want to thank Marc and Frank Giustra. I want to thank Louise for her leadersh...
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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Washington, DC December 5, 2009 QUESTION: But first, here they are. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, welcome both of you back to Meet The Press. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. QUESTION: So much of the heat of this debate this week was not about the going in, but about the getting out. This is what the President said about the scope of this mi...
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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Nairobi, Kenya August 6, 2009 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you very much for taking time out of this very hectic schedule to spend it with us. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, Fareed, and thank you for coming to Nairobi for this opportunity. QUESTION: It’s my pleasure. Let me take you back a little bit. Let me ask you – you are somebody who has had an incredibly full life with many different accomplishments. But much of it was not spent i...
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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Treaty Room Washington, DC July 28, 2009 MODERATOR: Good morning. We are here to commence the signing ceremony for the U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation in Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment. We now invite Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Policy David Sandalow and National Development and Reform Commission Vice...
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Topics: Climate and Environment, Energy, Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Treaties and International Agreements
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Interview With the Financial Times Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 19, 2008 QUESTION: Secretary, thanks so much for the interview. I wonder if we could begin just asking what do you make of the people who say that in your second term you really made a valiant effort to rebuild the international ties which frayed in the first? SECRETARY RICE: Well, obviously, in the first term, we had to do some difficult things, not all of which were well received in all quarters. I might note, I thin...
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Remarks From Daughters and Sons Meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 17, 2008 MS. MITCHELL: Welcome. This is so wonderful for me to see all of you, many of you friends, many of you sons and daughters of friends. I am Andrea Mitchell from NBC News, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and you all know our very special guest, the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. And tonight is a very special evening...
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Interview With Tefera Ggedamu of Ethiopia TV Secretary Condoleezza Rice Addis Ababa, Ethiopia December 5, 2007 QUESTION: Thank you, Madame Secretary, for offering to sit for this interview. It's a pleasure. SECRETARY RICE: Yes, pleasure to be with you. QUESTION: You had a fairly busy day. SECRETARY RICE: Yeah. QUESTION: You came this morning and you're leaving tonight. SECRETARY RICE: Yes. QUESTION: And -- but you're basically running into very big issues in the Horn of Africa and in Somalia. Does it co...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Announces Departure of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P. Hughes Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC October 31, 2007 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I told Karen just as we were out in the anteroom that I had changed my mind, I was not going to make this announcement. (Laughter.) But it is really with a great deal of sadness but also a great deal of happiness for what she has achieved that I announce on behalf of ...
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Press Availability With Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit Secretary Condoleezza Rice Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt July 31, 2007 View Video FOREIGN MINISTER GHEIT: (Via interpreter) We had today a meeting, the group of the GCC plus Egypt and Jordan. We convened that meeting with Dr. Rice, the Secretary of State, and the meeting truly was one of the important meetings. We have covered a wide variety of regional issues and we agreed on a statement that will be issued and it will cover six points. Obviously, ...
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Regions: Egypt , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Saudi Arabia , United States
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Interview With Colin Brazier of Sky TV Secretary Condoleezza Rice Lisbon, Portugal July 19, 2007 QUESTION: Secretary of State, thank you very, very much indeed for joining us. I know you had a long flight and it's very good of you to fit it in, in your schedule today. Tony Blair's new job, first day on the new job, what's your advice to him? SECRETARY RICE: Well, first of all, I'm really looking forward to working with Tony Blair and the Quartet. I think we really have a chance to push forward the possi...
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Interview With the NBC News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 8, 2007 QUESTION: To the assembled guests, we're so happy to welcome the Secretary of State, who of course had nothing else on her schedule today but to speak to management and staff at NBC News. And Madame Secretary, this is just about everyone in a position to get us on the air, make decisions to get us on the air. We thought and had hoped you could open up with whatever comments you'd like. We've assembled ...
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Interview With the New York Daily News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 8, 2007 QUESTION: If I may, I'll just start with one. I don't know why I'm quoting another newspaper, but what the heck. There is a story about -- in the Financial Times about the difficulties getting the Iraqi (inaudible) Government to sort of resolve the issue (inaudible) and so on. How do you intend (inaudible) there and (inaudible) attitude (inaudible)? SECRETARY RICE: Well, they clearly need to...
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