Presidential Speeches

Images of a U.S. President delivering speeches, set against formal backdrops with flags, highlighting leadership moments.

President G W Bush campaigns at an Ask President Bush event at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA on August 9, 2004.

Senator John McCain during Republican primaries in Concord, NH, 2000

Vice President Mike Pence speaks with Expedition 58 flight engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and flight engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) who are onboard the International Space Station, Wednesday, March 6, 2019 from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Vice President Pence and Administrator Bridenstine spoke with the astronauts about the arrival of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station.

Senator John Kerry addresses audience of supporters at the Thomas Mack Center at UNLV, Las Vegas, NV

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader on Capitol Hill

Senator John Kerry addressing audience of seniors at the Valley View Rec Center, Henderson, NV

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA (9-21-05 TO 9-23-05)

John McCain

President Bush visits a D.C. elementary school and comments on No Child Left Behind

Senator Kennedy at a press conference.

Speaker Paul Ryan answers questions at a news conference at the US Capitol on December 1st, 2016

President George Bush at events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

President Clinton rallies for Virginia senatorial candidate Jim Webb

Reportage: Vice President Mike Pence makes remarks Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum for the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Yad Vahem in Jerusalem.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky looks on as President Joe Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 vaccine production Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

President Ronald Reagan during an interview in February 1985 in the Oval office, Washington Dc

Speaker Paul Ryan answers questions at a news conference at the US Capitol on December 1st, 2016

President Bush attends a New Jersey Republican fundraiser

George W. Bush speaking at campaign rally, Burbank, CA in 2000

President George H. W. Bush speaks at the Pentagon during the swearing in ceremony for Richard B. Cheney, newly appointed secretary of defense, as Vice President J. Danforth Quayle looks on. Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

President George Bush at events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

President Bush attends swearing-in ceremony for Rob Portman as Director of Office of Management and Budget

President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in January 1974.

Perry campaigns in Iowa

President Joe Biden participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Micheál Martin Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House.

Joe Biden

President's Environmental Youth Awards - Portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush , Environmental Protection Agency

President George Bush speaking at signing ceremony for the Healthy Forests Restoration Act at Department of Agriculture headquarters

Romney Campaigns in South Carolina

Mike Huckabee campaigning through Iowa.

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

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

Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Schumer speak to the media

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born 1940) American politician serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as speaker of the House.

LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 22: Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz speaks at a rally at the Durango Hills Community Center on February 22, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada in anticipation of the Nevada Caucus

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks on the 2016 International Religious Freedom Annual Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 15, 2017.

Senator Jospeh Biden Jr at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

George W. Bush addressing the New Hampshire Presidential Candidates Youth Forum, January 2000

President Bush meets with Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

Paul Ryan

Romney Campaigns in South Carolina

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

NASA's 50th Anniversay year. Panel discussion with four of NASA AMES's past center directors on how their tenure effected Ames and NASA. On the projects they pushed for and/or pushed forward and the culture of the center and the agency and how that worked for or against Ames, as well as major contributions of the time made by Ames Research Center. Panel L-R; Hans Mark, Sy Syvertson, Dale Compton, Scott Hubbard and Pete Worden, present director. (Past Directors served for periods from 1969 thru 2006)

Official portrait of Vice President Joe Biden in his West Wing Office at the White House, Jan. 10, 2013.

Former NASCAR driver Darrell L. Waltrip makes the keynote speech at the Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2015.

President Bush participates in a White House national conference on faith-based and community initiatives

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Rep. Bill Posey listens to remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

George W. Bush speaking from podium at campaign rally, Londonderry, NH, January 2000

Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote address at the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America, at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, on June 15, 2017.

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

Perry campaigns in Iowa

Gingrich campaigns in Iowa

Paul Ryan

Tony Blair talking to reporters at the White House.

President Bush attends a New Jersey Republican fundraiser

Vice President George Bush, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Circa 1987

1982 - Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., addresses the crowd attending the launching ceremony for the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS BUFFALO (SSN-715)..

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the staff and families of the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 2013.

United States, State of Virginia, Arlington. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

John Edwards campaigning through Iowa.

President Bush participates in swearing-in ceremony of Samuel Alito

Greece, Athens on 2023-02-21. US Secretary of State, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Antony J. Blinken, sometimes known as Tony Blinken, visiting the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue and meeting with his Greek counterpart Minister Nikos Dendias. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Grece, Athenes le 2023-02-21. Le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis, le chef département charge des Affaires etrangeres, Antony J. Blinken, dit parfois Tony Blinken, en visite au Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Grec pour le U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue et une rencontre son homologue grec le Ministre Nikos Dendias. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Tony Blair at the White House.

Dirk Kempthorne sworn in as Secretary of the Interior at White House ceremony led by President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

05/06/2004 Press Conference In Villa Madama of The President of The Council And The President of The United States. In The Photo George Bush and Silvio Berlusconi

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference at the Pentagon

Tony Blair at the White House.

Press conference announcing the launch of the Trust of the National Mall, a nonprofit organization that will help raise private-sector funds needed for restoration and preservation of the National Mall. Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined National Park Service Deputy Director Lindi Harvey, National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Peggy O'Dell, Trust for the National Mall Chairman John "Chip" Akridge, Washington, D.C. Delegate to Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton, and other dignitaries at the event, which also included a brief civics lesson taught by an actor playing George Washington to a group of students from Anne Beers Elementary School in Washington, D.C.

President Bush attends Victory 2006 Rally in Georgia

Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Announcement 2008

Madrid, 11/10/2022. Casino on Alcal Street, Ceremony of the XXVIII Pelayo Prize for prestigious jurists. The winner this year is Judge Mara Luisa Segoviano. Pedro Gonzlez Trevijano (president of the Constitutional Court). Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Vice President Dan Quayle makes a point in May 1990

President George Bush speaks during an observance commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Base: Pearl Harbor State: Hawaii(HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Nicolae Ceausescu 1818-1989 addressing the Romanian Communist Party 1987. Elena his wife is seen at the left

Representative Paul Ryan R.WI chairman of the House Budget Committee, at a press briefing with Senator Jeff Sessions, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee (on right), on the Obama budget.

Madrid, 12/14/2016. Interview with the president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos. Photo: Matias grandson Archdc.

Condi Rice, Robert Gates and Peter Pace speak to the media

Vice President Pence delivers remarks at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on July 26, 2018 at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C.

Madrid, 02-11-2004 delivery by the Minister of Justice JM Michavilla of the great cross of Saint Raimundo de Peñafort to Exmos Carlos Carnicer -Juan Carlos Estévez -Juan Bolas and Fernando Méndez photo Jaime García.

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.

Washington, DC 10/3/02 President GW Bush speaks out a White House event to urge passage on legislation on terrorism Inusrance.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as he receives a briefing from a group of climate change scientists on June 17, 2016, as they cruise aboard the HDMS Thetis in the waters off Ilulissat, Greenland, so he and Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen could view an iceberg field created by the Jacobshavn Glacier Front, receive the science briefing, and meet with Greenlandic Premier Kim Kielsen and Foreign Minister Vittus Qujaukitsoq.

Ralph Nader speaking from podium at 1992 campaign rally at Long Beach Arena, CA

Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa delivers remarks at the joint press conference after the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting, known as the 2+2, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2011.

Madrid, 10/18/2015. Foreign Minister José Manuel García Margallo receives United States Secretary of State John Kerry. Photo: Oscar del Pozo ARCHDC.

John McCain

DAN AYKROYD in MY FELLOW AMERICANS (1996), directed by PETER SEGAL.

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

Condi Rice, Robert Gates and Peter Pace speak to the media

NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, speaks during NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future," a live television program on Friday, July 19, 2019 on the National Mall in Washington. NASA and the world are recognizing the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, in which astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin crewed the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina addresses U.S Secretary of State John Kerry on February 24, 2016, as he prepares to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Madrid, 11/23/2015. Kings Felipe Vi and Juan Carlos I attend an event by the Cotec foundation. Photo: Ignacio Gil Archdc.

Madrid, 06/30/2022. NATO Summit. Appearance of US President Joe Biden. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Romney Campaigns in South Carolina

Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Schumer speak to the media

President Bush meets with Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

Dirk Kempthorne sworn in as Secretary of the Interior at White House ceremony led by President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Washington, DC 11/14/02 Rep Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader.

President Bush participates in swearing-in ceremony of Samuel Alito

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken moderates a G20 Summit session alongside President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 2021.

President Donald Trump announces his nomination federal appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, East Room of the White House, January 31, 2017. President Donald Trump, Judge Neil Gorsuch and Judge Neil Gorsuch's wife, Louise.

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