Political Figures Speaking Engagements

Photographs capturing speeches by political figures at notable events, highlighting formal settings and audience engagement.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on �Human Rights and the Iranian Regime�, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on �In Tribute to Human Freedom� at Rice University�s Baker Institute for Public Policy, in Houston, Texas on November 15, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech, �After the Deal: A New Iran Strategy�, at the Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C, on May 21, 2018.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on �Human Rights and the Iranian Regime�, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in The Hill�s Newsmaker Series, at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by Spokesperson Jen Psaki, addresses the international media in Vienna, Austria, on November 24, 2014, following P5+1 and European Union-nation negotiations with Iran about the future of its nuclear program.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh looks on as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech focused on Obama administration climate change policy on January 9, 2016, during an appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at a Retirement Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 20, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry provides a video message during a panel on the Future of Religion and Politics at the Newseum's Religious Freedom Center in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2015.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley after delivering a speech about the intersection of religion and foreign policy on April 26, 2016, during a visit to Rice�s Baker Institute in Houston, Texas.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, flanked by Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Colin L. Powell, delivers remarks at a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 10, 2017.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2020.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a Meet and Greet with U.S. Embassy Doha and Mission Afghanistan, in Doha, Qatar, on September 7, 2021.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on �Trump Administration Diplomacy: The Untold Story�at the Heritage Foundation President's Club Meeting, in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at an event highlighting human rights abuses in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in New York City on September 23, 2014. The Secretary is participating in events in conjunction with the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a policy address, "Opportunity in the Americas," in Quito, Ecuador, on June 8, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a discussion with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. on July 29, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses reporters at a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, on April 15, 2011.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

President George Bush addressing Summit of U.S. University Presidents on International Education, Dean Acheson Auditorium

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on January 12, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on U.S. Policy in the Western Hemisphere at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., on November 18, 2013.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the 2015 SelectUSA Investment Summit in suburban Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2015.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a public discussion event with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in London, United Kingdom on January 30, 2020.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, at the Department of State on February 25, 2020.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is applauded by Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian - who he worked to free after he was unjustly held in Iran for 18 months - and Post publisher Fred Ryan before he addressed a ceremony on January 28, 2016, to dedicate the new Post headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks entitled �Looking North: Sharpening America�s Arctic Focus,� in Rovaniemi, Finland, on May 6, 2019.

Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin delivers remarks at a reception at the U.S. Diplomacy Center in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2019.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Elaine Chao and President George W Bush at the Women's Conference on Small Business

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a question from a man in a group of young people involved in Transatlantic affairs at the U.S. Embassy Berlin in Berlin, Germany, on December 5, 2016, before a bilateral meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and his receiving the Order of Merit from the German government.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at an event with the U.S. Antarctic Center and Antarctica New Zealand in Christchurch, New Zealand, on November 5, 2010. Also on stage are Rob Fenwick (left), Chair of Antarctica New Zealand, and Art Brown (right), the Christchurch-based representative of the National Science Foundation.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a joint discussion with Israeli President Shimon Peres hosted by The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on June 12, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at an event in honor of National Work and Family Month at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 2013.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is seen during a NASA town hall event, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger participates in a discussion with his biographer, Dr. Niall Ferguson, at the Department of State 230th Anniversary Celebration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Nancy Pelosi claims victory for democrats in the midterm elections and becomes the new Speaker of The House of Representatives

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif address reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country�s nuclear program at the �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry answers a question from Bruce Weber of Canadian Press during a news conference after the United States assumed a two-year chairmanship of the body during a meeting of its eight member nations and seven Permanent Representatives in Iqaluit, Canada, just below the Arctic Circle, on April 24, 2015.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks on �Celebrating Americanism in Our Foreign Policy� at the 101st National Convention of the American Legion, in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 27, 2019.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. Jay Raymond delivers a keynote address on the state of the Space Force during the 2022 Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., Sept. 20, 2022.

U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Patrick S. Moon introduces U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the ceremony for the new embassy compound in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on October 12, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton responds to students� questions at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 2, 2010.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a Question and Answer session at the University of Louisville as part of the McConnell Center�s Distinguished Speaker Series on December 2, 2019.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the 13th Annual Values Voter Summit, in Washington D.C., September 21, 2018

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian - who he worked to free after he was unjustly held in Iran for 18 months - after he addressed a ceremony on January 28, 2016, to dedicate the new Post headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Q and A after delivering a speech on �The United States and Greece: Showing the Way Forward,� in Athens, Greece, on October 5, 2019.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu, listens as Canadian Foreign Minister St�phane Dion addresses reporters on January 29, 2016, at the Hotel Chateau Laurier in Qu�bec City, Qu�bec, during a news conference following the North American Ministerial Meeting with Canadian and Mexican officials.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at an opening ceremony for the American University of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October, 31, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C., on September 28, 2010.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair delivers remarks at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on July 17, 2019.

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