Secretary Remarks

Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Education Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam January 13, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: President Dung, thank you very, very much for that introduction. Xin Chao Viet Nam. (Applause.) I want to thank Party Secretary Dinh La Thang, and the People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong. I'm very, very grateful for your welcome. I'm honored to be here, And I'm very pleased to be here in a building the president just told me was b...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Wilson Center Washington, DC September 28, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Jane, thank you for a wonderful introduction. I hugely appreciate your support, your counsel. And obviously, we are living in complicated times. I want to thank you for many, many years of remarkable service to our country. Jane was reminding me as we were walking up here that we were by happenstance on a flight together not so many years ago, and she secretly informed me of the offer from the Wilson C...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Edward M. Kennedy Center Dhaka, Bangladesh August 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Marcia, thank you very, very much. Join me, everybody, in expressing our gratitude – all of us – for the tremendous job that Ambassador Marcia Bernicat is doing here in Bangladesh. She has really been terrific. (Applause.) And I was about to say thank you to her outstanding team, because we all know it is a team effort. And I’m going to have a chance to be able t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC June 21, 2016 SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: All right – or not. (Laughter.) I’m the shorter secretary. (Laughter.) Good evening and thank you all for being here. Today we are celebrating an important milestone in the life of a remarkable organization, and thanks to our host, Secretary Kerry, we are able to do this in the most wonderful and fitting venue. We are grateful to you, Mr. Secretary, for having us here and for taking the time to join us thi...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Westin Paris, France December 8, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Well, Tim, thank you. Thank you very much. Bonjour , all of you. Welcome to yet another spectacularly organized and important event from the UN Foundation. And Ted, thank you for this masterful idea that has produced so much in such a short period of time, although Tim may not think 15 year at the helm is a short period of time. But I thank you, Tim, for your tremendous leadership through the years a...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Navy Heritage Center Washington, DC October 21, 2015 Thank you very much for that. Ernie, thank you. Thank you for your warm introduction, but thank you most importantly for celebrating these 20 years and for your tremendous engagement. We sort of drafted Ernie late as we got into the really technical portions of the negotiation. And he – it proved to be one of the best draft choices we’ve ever made. (Laughter.) He performed extraordinarily, and the...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Loy Henderson Auditorium Washington, DC October 9, 2015 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I apologize for being a little bit late, and if this is indeed the moment you’ve all been waiting for, you’re leading very drab lives. (Laughter.) I’m really happy to be here with all of you. Thank you very much. Welcome to the launch of the Global Diaspora Week here at the State Department. We’re very proud of this effort and it...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Waldorf-Astoria New York City, DC September 25, 2014 Well, Cathy, thank you very much. First of all, thank you for your tremendous organizational skill in putting together the Oceans – Our Ocean summit that we had in Washington, and we welcome the follow-on by Foreign Minister Munoz in Chile. We very much look forward to that meeting, and I’ve already announced that the United States will happily then pick up again and do the follow-on, and we look to an...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC June 19, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Robyn, thank you very, very much. Thank you to all of you. Welcome to this celebration of pride here at State, and I’m very, very honored to have a chance to be able to talk with everybody. And thank you especially for putting up with my tardiness, which is not my fault. Blame Iraq and – (laughter) – a few other places. But I’m really delighted to be here. Robyn’s leadershi...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Catherine A. Novelli    Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment  Loy Henderson Conference Room Washington, DC June 17, 2014 Moderator: Under Secretary Catherine Novelli Guest Speakers: Kenred Dorsett, Minister of Environment and Housing, The Bahamas Ted Waitt, Founder and Board Chairman, The Waitt Foundation Elizabeth Wright-Koteka, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister, Cook Islands Mark Spalding, President, Ocea...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Murray McCully, Minister of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand Sant Ocean Hall, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC June 16, 2014 SECRETARY CLOUGH: Good evening, and welcome to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. On behalf of the Smithsonian, it is my honor to host this reception for the first State Department event dedicated to the world's ocean. As you saw in Sant Ocean...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Catherine A. Novelli    Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment  Loy Henderson Conference Room Washington, DC June 16, 2014 ANNOUNCER: "Our Ocean" Conference hosted by the U.S. Department of State. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Secretary of State of the United States of America, the President of the Republic of Kiribati and the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environm...

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Remarks John Kerry    Secretary of State Catherine A. Novelli    Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment  David A. Balton    Deputy Assistant Secretary , Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Washington, DC June 11, 2014 MS. HARF: Hi everybody. Thank you to everyone for coming today. For those of you who I haven’t met, I’m Marie Harf. I’m the deputy spokesperson here. We’ll be ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Institute of Peace Washington, DC October 28, 2013 Well, good evening, everybody. And Michael, thank you so much for a very, very generous introduction. I think everybody here wants to join me in thanking you for your remarkable efforts through all the years. You said a moment ago that you’ve been doing this for 40 years. You’ve really not only been involved in these humanitarian causes for a long time and the effort to make our world safer, but I t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Intercontinental Hotel Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2013 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you very much for your patience, not just this morning, but over the last couple of days. We’re very appreciative and particularly grateful to Sergey Lavrov, who stayed extra time from what he had originally planned, hoping we’d finish sooner, and this gave us additional opportunity to be able to work through some of the issue...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Kiruna City Hall Kiruna, Sweden May 15, 2013 This video is available with closed captioning on YouTube. Thank you very much, Minister Bildt, and thank you for hosting this important event. I’m pleased to be joined at the table by our senior Arctic official Julia Gourley and I’m pleased also to have Senator from Alaska, Senator Lisa Murkowski, a good friend of mine from the Senate, who cares about these issues enormously. It’s an honor to be here in...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC April 30, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY KERRY: What are we here? Good morning. I was just checking. (Laughter.) (In Spanish.) I’m delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Garcia-Magallo here to Washington. Spain is an extraordinarily valued ally and a partner of the United States, and this year we mark the 500 th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing in Florida. And the minister will be...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State National Geographic Washington, DC March 18, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . Well, it’s my pleasure to follow the comedian from New Zealand. (Laughter.) I’m happy to follow two guys who speak kind of funny. (Laughter.) What a pleasure to be here with Ambassador Mike Moore, former prime minister, who is a great person and a terrific leader. And I am so grateful to him for the leadership of New Zealand, a country I&rsq...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Embassy London London, United Kingdom February 25, 2013 AMBASSADOR SUSMAN: I know all of you. I know all of you. You’re just glad to be here to meet our new boss. But on behalf of Marjorie and myself, we couldn’t be more thrilled, the fact that Secretary Kerry is here on the first visit of his trip overseas in London, and he’s here at the London Embassy. I’ve known Senator Kerry for much long for me, but not too long for him. I will tell you ...

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Remarks The Ronald Reagan Building Washington, DC December 8, 2010 Before I go too much further in talking about what we are doing in the government and what I would like to challenge you to join us in doing, I want to acknowledge the passing of Elizabeth Edwards, someone whom I have the greatest respect and admiration for. She lived with a fierce intelligence, a passion, a sense of purpose. She was not only devoted to family and friends, but also to improving health care and finding a cure for cancer f...

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Remarks The Ronald Reagan Building Washington, DC December 8, 2010 Before I go too much further in talking about what we are doing in the government and what I would like to challenge you to join us in doing, I want to acknowledge the passing of Elizabeth Edwards, someone whom I have the greatest respect and admiration for. She lived with a fierce intelligence, a passion, a sense of purpose. She was not only devoted to family and friends, but also to improving health care and finding a cure for cancer f...

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Remarks With Congressman Charles Rangel at an Assembly at P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman School Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York City October 1, 2007 (11:40 a.m. EDT) MODERATOR: We're very proud to have our honored guests with us today: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (applause); our very dear Congressman, Chairman Charles Rangel (applause); our Chancellor, Mr. Joel Klein (applause); our District Superintendent, Ms. Gale Reeves (applause); and our beloved (inaudible) principal, Ms. Elizabeth Jarrett (ap...

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Interview on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC November 12, 2002 (Aired 11:15 p.m. EST) MR. KOPPEL: We are in the Marshall Room at the State Department. We are now joined by the Secretary of State. Mr. Secretary, let me read you a little item that came over just this afternoon from a newspaper called The Scotsman . I don't know why you don't talk to The New York Times or The Washington Post , but in The Scotsman it says: "Secretary of State Colin Powell said the Un...

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Press Briefing Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the Press En route to Shannon Airport April 13, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: I don�t have a statement. QUESTION: What did you accomplish in the Balkans? SECRETARY POWELL: I think it was important for me to go through the region to show that the Bush administration was interested in the region, committed to the region�s development, a fostering of democratic institutions, economic development, to get a better assessment of what we�re doing with our presence t...

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Town Hall Meeting Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC January 25, 2001 Thanks very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that very warm welcome and a special welcome to those who are in the overflow conference rooms and a very, very special greeting and hello to the men and women of the State Department who are watching this at embassies all across the world. And I wanted to let them know here and now how much I appreciate, and President Bush appreciates, all that they are doing in the service of our nat...

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