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.
President G W Bush campaigns at an Ask President Bush event at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA on August 9, 2004.
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Presidential candidate Herman Cain speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 31, 2011.
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Condi Rice, Robert Gates and Peter Pace speak to the media
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President Richard Nixon at a press conference in the East Room of the White House in September 1973.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is seen during a NASA town hall event, Monday, April 1, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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Vice President George H. W. Bush speaks at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS OHIO (SSBN-726). The OHIO was built by General Dynamics Corp. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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President Reagan presents an introduction for the Horatio Alger Association
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is seen during a NASA town hall event, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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President Bush addresses the nation
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President Clinton rallies for Virginia senatorial candidate Jim Webb
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Iraq's Zalmay Khalilzad testifies before U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Former Vice President Al Gore testifies about global climate change on Capitol HIll
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Paul Ryan
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Actor John Travolta at events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
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President Barack Obama holds a fiscal policy meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 2, 2011. Chief of Staff Bill Daley is seen at right.
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Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS' FORUM-SERGEI KHRUSHCEV, DAVID EISENHOWER, JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
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Actor John Travolta at events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
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Trent Lott, Senate Minority Whip following the midterm election
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks at a wreath-laying ceremony at the August 7th Memorial Park in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 11, 2018.
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Stephen Colbert testifies before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
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Samuel A. Alito, Supreme Court judicial nominee confirmation hearing
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual joint press conference with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in London, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2021.
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President Bush meets with Bob Dole and Donna Shalala on their co-chairing a commission investigating veteran care in the wake of
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Dennis Kucinich Campaigning Through Iowa
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President Ford campaigning for the office of president in Texas in July 1975
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Radio and TV personality Ed Schultz speaks at the biannual convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, Los Angeles, California, USA, North America
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President Bush makes a statement to the media with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly addresses reporters at a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and their Mexican counterparts, Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso and Secretary of Government Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, following their high-level dialogue on strategies to combat transnational criminal organizations, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2017.
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rodolfo Solano Quir�s, Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Roberto �lvarez, and Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2022.
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Political activist, Carl Sagan, speaking at rally, Washington D.C.
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U.S. Congressman Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), three-quarter length portrait in his office, Rayburn House, Washington, D.C., USA, Michael Geissinger, 1993
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Vice President Al Gore campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination at Lakewood Park in Sunnyvale, California
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Madrid, 07/13/2016. Meeting in the Congress of Deputies with the acting President of the Government Mariano Rajoy, and the leader of the PSOE Pedro Sánchez. In the image, Pedro Sanchez at a press conference. Photo: Jaime Garcia ARCHDC.
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Adel Al-Jubeir, Foreign Affairs advisor to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia announces new actions against terrorist organization at a news conference at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in DC on June 2, 2004
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RICHARD JENKINS in RUMOR HAS IT (2005), directed by ROB REINER.
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John Edwards campaigning through Iowa.
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Senator Bob Corker R-TN asks a question at a Senate Hearing on January 13, 2009.
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Millionaire businessman and Presidential candidate Ross Perot speaks at a petition drive in Orange County California. 1992
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Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary responds to questions at a White House Press briefing.
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Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History and Director, Hayden Planetarium Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson testifies during a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 in Washington. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testified at the same hearing prior to Tyson.
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Madrid, 01/12/2019. Interview with José Luis Martínez Almeida. Candidate for mayor of Madrid by the PP. Photo: de San Bernardo Archdc.
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Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford speaking at event, outside Department of Interior headquarters, marking Ford Company's donation of 12 of the new2005 Ford Escape Hybrid vehicles to the National Park Federation, for use in National Parks across the country. Donation of the gas-electric sport utility vehicles came on the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Ford Motor Company
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Madrid, 06/19/2019. Las Rozas Soccer City. Press conference where the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, together with José Francisco Molina, announce that Luis Enrique leaves the training of the National Team and will be replaced by Robert Moreno, present at the press conference. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.
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John Edwards Campaigning through Iowa.
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Photograph of Sir Keir Starmer speaking at a 'Pro-Remain' march. Sir Keir Starmer (1962-) a British politician and barrister who has been Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the National Education Association (NEA) 2021 Virtual Representative Assembly, Friday, July 2, 2021, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks during the "National Symphony Orchestra Pops: Space, the Next Frontier" event celebrating NASA's 60th Anniversary, Friday, June 1, 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The event featured music inspired by space including artists will.i.am, Grace Potter, Coheed & Cambria, John Cho, and guest Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan.
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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.