Political Speeches

Figures in formal attire delivering speeches at various official events, emphasizing authority and serious discussion in professional settings.

John McCain gives a keynote address in Washington, DC.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to NASA employees, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Vice President visited NASA to discuss the progress on Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD-1) with NASA leadership.

Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks to the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference �One Team, One Mission, One Future�, at the Department of State, on January 16, 2019.

Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks to the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference �One Team, One Mission, One Future�, at the Department of State, on January 16, 2019.

President Bush speaks to National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC

Vice President Joseph Biden delivers a speech at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, on December 6, 2013.

U.S. President, Joe Biden shakes hands with attendees following a press conference held at Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. on April 21, 2022. During the event, the President spoke of upcoming infrastructure improvements coming to the Portland area in the near future.

John McCain gives a keynote address in Washington, DC.

Paul Ryan

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu address reporters after their bilateral meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, Turkey, on March 30, 2017.

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

Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American retired politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election running alongside Mitt Romney, but lost to incumbent president Barack Obama and then vice president Joe Biden

President Barack Obama talks with Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in between meetings to discuss the ongoing budget negotiations, April 8, 2011.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., with Vice President Kamala K. Harris and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, delivers remarks to State Department employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor at a press conference on the Debt Ceiling legislation.

Senator Jeff Sessions answers questions during his confirmation hearing to become Attorney General. The hearing was held in the Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building on January 10, 2017.

House Republican Leader John Boehner at a press conference in the US Capitol on the Debt Ceiling Legislation on 8/1/11.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson addresses the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2017.

John P. Abizaid, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia delivers remarks at his swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 2018.

U.S. President Joe Biden listens to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a meeting where they previewed images from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, Monday, July 11, 2022, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington.

Dennis Kucinich Campaigning Through Iowa

Madrid, 12/04/2024. Telefónica 2024 General Shareholders Meeting. In the picture, José María Álvarez Pallete. Photo: Ignacio Gil. ARCHDC.

President Bush attends a New Jersey Republican fundraiser

Alberto R. Gonzales Senate Confirmation Hearing

Tony Blair at the White House.

President Joe Biden salutes as he walks along the Colonnade of the White House on Friday, March 12, 2021, en route to the Oval Office.

National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at a White House press Briefing on July 31, 2017

Former Vice President Al Gore testifies about global climate change on Capitol HIll

John McCain campaigning in Ohio

Vice President Joe Biden to deliver the keynote address at the Caribbean Energy Security Summit, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 2015.

President Bush speaks to Freedom House members on the situation in Iraq

NASA Apollo 10 Astronaut Gene Cernan, right, answers questions from the Newseum's distinguished journalist-in-residence, Nick Clooney during a Newseum TV program celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 10, Monday, May 18, 2009, in Washington.

Bob Dole during the Presidential campaign

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Saturday, April 28, 2018 in Pasadena, California.

Mitt Romney speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on March 5, 2010.

GEORGE CLOONEY in THE IDES OF MARCH (2011), directed by GEORGE CLOONEY.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talks to reporters about START in the hall of the US Senate after the passage of the tax cut legislation in the Senate.

Vice President Mike Pence, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine are seen as they talk with NASA astronauts Scott Tingle, Andrew Feustel, and Ricky Arnold who are onboard the International Space Station, Monday, April 23, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Bridenstine was just sworn in by the Vice President as NASA's 13th Administrator.

The first presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi on September 26, 2008

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered the keynote remarks at the 13th Annual Grand Challenges Meeting co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), and Wellcome Trust at the Washington Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens to a reporter's question at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on April 12, 2017.

Vice President Cheney participates in memorial ceremonies for the September 11 attacks

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and newly elected House leadership talk to the media

US President Joe Biden speaks during the 21st 9/11 Pentagon Observance Ceremony on Sept. 11, 2022, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)

Paul Ryan

Former Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, speaks to The Women's Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC on September 28, 2006.

President Bush meets with Tony Saca, President of El Salvador in the Oval Office

Senator Jeff Sessions answers questions during his confirmation hearing to become Attorney General. The hearing was held in the Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building on January 10, 2017.

President of the United States Joe Biden and First Lady of the United States Jill Biden attend a Toy for Tots event at Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va., December 12, 2022. Toys for Tots is celebrating 75 years of uniting communities in a common cause to help less-fortunate children through annual toy collection and distribution.

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President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary, General Stoltenberg in the Oval Office of the White House on May 26,2015

U.S. President Jimmy Carter at podium during news conference, Washington D.C., USA, Bernard Gotfryd, between 1977 and 1981

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks after being sworn-in as they agency's 13th administrator as Vice President Mike Pence looks on, Monday, April 23, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 21: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks at a rally at the Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel on February 21, 2016 in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Paul Ryan

Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigning for John McCain in Ohio

Nancy Pelosi, newly elected Speaker of the House

Paul Ryan

Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff attend Presi

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson addresses U.S. Embassy Cairo staff in Cairo, Egypt on February 12, 2018.

President Bush meets with Bob Dole and Donna Shalala on their co-chairing a commission investigating veteran care in the wake of

Powell at a Bush-Cheney presidential rally in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California, November 2000. Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987-89), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War. Born in Harlem as the son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first of two consecutive black office-holders to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken speaks with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 2, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers opening remarks at the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting Luncheon in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 11, 2017.

The first presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi on September 26, 2008

Paul Ryan

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference at the Pentagon

Trent Lott, Senate Minority Whip following the midterm election

Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, addresses U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on February 23, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., during a discussion the Obama Administration's 2017 federal budget request.

Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC on March 29, 2004.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine delivers opening remarks during a NASA town hall on the amendment to the fiscal year 2020 budget request that supports the agencys plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024, Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ron Dermer delivers remarks at the Israeli Embassy�s Independence Day Celebration at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2019.

Harry Reid voted Senate Majority Leader

Campaign rally in Ohio attended by Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney, 2004

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a joint press availability with Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rink_vi_s in Riga, Latvia, on March 7, 2022.

Vice President Al Gore campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination at Lakewood Park in Sunnyvale, California

Jessica Simpson and Operation Smile visit the U.S. Capitol

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia State senator from 1963 to 1967.

LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 23: Donald Trump is flanked by sons Eric (Right) and Donald Jr. (Left) during Mr. Trump's victory speech following big win in Nevada caucus, Las Vegas, NV at Treasure Island Casino and Hotel

Senator Bob Corker R-TN asks Herbert M. Allison Jr. as Allison testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on June 4, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning delivers remarks at the U.S. Department of State�s "Pride at State" event in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2016.

Samuel A. Alito, Supreme Court judicial nominee confirmation hearing

Vice President Mike Pence waves goodbye after meeting with NASA employees, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Vice President visited NASA to discuss the progress on Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD-1) with NASA leadership.

John and Cindy McCain

Meeting between Russian Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and US President Lyndon Johnson 1967

Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby holds a press briefing, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., April 4, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

United States, Washington, D.C. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks at the National Press Club on August 7, 2007.

Senator John Kerry addresses audience of supporters at a southern Ohio high school gymnasium in 2004

TOM WILKINSON in THE NEWSREADER (2021), directed by EMMA FREEMAN.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the keynote address at the Coast Guard Academy during the 141st Commencement Exercises May 18, 2022. The Coast Guard Academy graduated 252 new officers along with nine international students.

Romney Campaigns in South Carolina

Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze addresses reporters with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry before their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2016.

President Bush participates in swearing-in ceremony of Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman

Tony Blair at the White House.

John McCain with wife Cindy McCain as they found out that he won the New Hampshire primary.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduces President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President Kamala D. Harris to State Department employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

Conrad C. Lautenbacher

18/10/2022 Rome, Silvio Berlusconi leaves the Chamber of Deputies after the meeting to elect group leaders

Forest Whitaker reads a historic passage at the We Are One during the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a joint press availability with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C., on August 19, 2020.

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