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The following is a list of all speeches available online arranged alphabetically by surnames.

 

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H

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HRH The Duke of York, (The Prince Andrew)
11/02/2000

Britain: Open for Business
 

 

His Excellency Farid Abboud
Ambassador of the Republic of Lebanon to the United States
6/28/1999

Lebanon and the Peace Process: An Update
 

10/14/2002

Lebanon and the Present Situation in the Middle East

 

His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Abdullah

Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

03/17/2006

Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities

 

His Majesty King Abdullah II
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
6/5/2000

 

 

The Honorable Spencer Abraham
United States Secretary of Energy 
02/08/2002

U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy
 

 

Tara Abramyan
President, Union of Armenians in Russia
02/05/2002
 


Ken Adelman
Former Director of Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
10/04/2001

America Goes to War:  A View from Inside the Pentagon
 

 

Lal Krishna Advani
Deputy Prime Minister of India
06/11/2003

Indo-U.S. Relations: A Strategic Perspective
 

 

His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah

Minister of Energy and Industry, State of Qatar

6/20/2006

Qatar Today   

 

 

Madeleine K. Albright
United States Secretary of State
7/23/1997

 

 

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Political Activist,

Consultant, American Institute,

Author, Infidel

February 22, 2007

The Fight Against Radical Islam      

 

 

 

Claude Allegre
Former Minister of National Education, Research and Technology,
Republic of France
03/15/2001

Educational Reform in the United States and Europe
 

 

The Honorable Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard

09/22/2004

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism

 

 

Ali I. Al-Naimi
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
5/8/2000

Looking Ahead: The Oil Market and Its Future
 

 

Ali Abu Al-Ragheb
The Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
05/09/2001

 

 

Christiane Amanpour
Chief International Correspondent, CNN

12/06/2002

While America Slept, Bombs, but Then What?
 

His Excellency

Akira Amari

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

1/5/2007

Japan's Growth Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Context        

 

 

His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations

4/21/1998
The Humanitarian Challenge Today
 

12/2/2003

The Importance of the United Nations to the World
 

 

Louise Arbour
9/7/2000

The Rule of Law and the Emerging Culture of Accountability on the

World Scene
 

 

David D. Arnold

President, The American University in Cairo

October 17, 2007

The Role and Reality of the University in the Middle East    

 

 

Hanan Ashrawi
Founder and Secretary General, Palestinian Initiative

for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
08/27/2003

Palestinians, Israelis and the Road to Peace

 

 

Ahmed El Assaad

Head, Kafa'at Party of Lebanon,

Chairman, Lebanese Option Gathering

May 13, 2008

Presenting an Alternative to Hezbollah Lebanon   

 

 

Colette Avital
Member of the Israeli Knesset, Former Israeli Ambassador to Portugal

and Consul General in New York
03/05/2001

After the Israeli Elections: Prospects for Peace
 

 

His Excellency Daniel Ayalon
Ambassador of Israel to the United States

19/11/2003

 

1/24/2006

Israel: What's Next? 

 

 

 

His Excellency Jose Maria Aznar Lopez

President of Government of Spain
07/10/2003

Spanish-U.S. Relations Today
 

 

 

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Dr. David Baltimore
President, California Institute of Technology
11/09/2000

Why Don't We Have an AIDS Vaccine?
 

 

Ehud Barak
Member of the Knesset and Israeli Labour Party Candidate for Prime

Minister
9/16/1998

Alternative Directions for the Middle East Peace Process
 

 

Charlene Barshefsky
United States Trade Representative
9/25/2000

Trade Policy 1992-2000: The Clinton Record and the Road Ahead
 

 

His All Holiness Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople
11/7/1997

The New Cultural Divide
 

 

Richard Baum
Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
01/29/2003

China in Transition: Implications of Recent Changes
 

 

Stephen L. Baum
Chairman, President, CEO, Sempra Energy
Energy and International Security: A Vital Partnership
01/17/2003
 

 

His Excellency Yossi Beilin

Former Minister of Justice, Israel

The Future of the Middle East

03/02/05

 


Carol Bellamy
Executive Director, UNICEF
09/24/2002

Confronting Children's Challenges Around the World

 

1/10/2001

 

 

Richard Ben-Veniste
Member, National Commission on

Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

8/06/2004

The 9/11 Commission Report
 

 

Robert Berger

CBS News Correspondent, Jerusalem

7/19/2007

War or Peace? The Middle East at the Crossroads    

 

 

Michael Beschloss
Presidential historian, author, The Conquerors
12/04/2002

Building a World After War

 

06/06/2007

Measuring Presidential Courage   
 

 

Kurt Biedenkopf
 Minister President of Saxony and Senior Member of the Christian
 Democratic Union Party
 
04/10/01

 

 

Anne Wilhelm Bijleveld
Representative to the U.S. of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
12/10/1997

The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda
 

Sir John Birt
Director General, British Broadcasting Corporation
5/17/1999

The BBC: From Inception, through Revolutionary Technological

 

 

Abdulla Bishara
Former Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council

05/22/03

Former Ambassador of Kuwait to the United Nations


 

The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

8/1/2006

A Reneisance in Foreign Policy

 

 

Christian Blickenstorfer
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
03/14/2002

Swiss-American Relations Against the Backdrop of the Terrorist Attacks

of September 11th
 

 

Stephen Bollenbach

Chairman of the Board, KB Home

Investing in the Global Economy

February 13, 2008                        

 

 

Max Boot

Author, War Made New: Technology,

Warfare and the Course of History

April 30, 2007

War Made New    

 

 

Richard Boudreaux

Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times

December 10, 2007

An Update on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks     

 

 

L. Paul Bremer
12/06/2001

Chairman, President Clinton's National Commission on Terrorism,
Chairman and CEO, Marsh Crisis Consulting
America's War on Terrorism

01/30/2006

Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq;

Administrator, Coalition Provisional Authority;

Author, My Year in Iraq

Building a Future of Hope in Iraq 

 

 

Lester Brown

President, Earth Policy Institute;

Author, Pan B 2.0

February 8, 2006

Restructuring the Ecological Market Place: Plans for an Environmentally Sustainable Future     

 

 

The Honorable John Bruton

Head of European Delegation to the United States;

Former Prime Minister, Ireland

10/11/2005

Building a Stronger E.U-U.S. Relationship

 

 

Lucien Bouchard
Premier of Québec
10/21/1999

Building Partnership in the Americas
 

Pat Buchanan
Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination
4/22/1999

America First: New Foreign Policy
 

 

Gunter Burghardt
Head of European Commission Delegation to the United States

5/28/2003

The Impact of Expansion on the European Union
 

R. Nicholas Burns
Spokesman, United States Department of State
8/14/1997

Challenges for the Future: American Foreign Policy
 

 

 President George W. Bush
 President of the United States of America
 
5/29/2001

 

 

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Louis Caldera
Secretary of the United States Army
6/25/1999

The U.S. Army: In Kosovo and Beyond
 

 

Michel Camdessus

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
6/17/1997

Global Capital Flows: Raising the Returns and Reducing the

 

 

 

Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter

Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies,

Cato Institute

December 3, 2007

Iran: The Grand Bargain    

 

 

 

John Carroll

Editor, Los Angeles Times

9/23/2004

Politics and Foreign Policy: Views from the L.A. Times and the Financial Times

 

General George W. Casey, Jr.
Chief of Staff, United States Army

September 27, 2007

Persistent Conflict: The New Strategic Environment     

 

 

Dr. Victor Cha
Author
12/09/2003

Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies


The Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien
Canadian Prime Minister
11/30/2001

The Canada - U.S. Relationship
 

 

 His Excellency Lien Chan
 Chairman, Kuomintang Party, Taiwan
 6/20/2002

 Relations Across the Taiwan Strait
 

 

 Anson Chan
 Chief Secretary for Administration, Hong Kong
 1/13/1998

 Hong Kong: New Era, New Opportunities
 

 

 John Chang
 Foreign Minister of the Republic of China on Taiwan
 6/16/1997

 No Easy Walk to Reunification
 

 

 C.J. Chen
 Representative, Taipai Economic and Cultural Representative office in  

 the United Sates
 
7/9/2003

 

 

 Dick Cheney
 Vice President of the United States
 
01/14/2004

 

 

The Honorable Michael Chertoff

United States Secretary of Homeland Security

March 22, 2007

Homeland Security:

Enacting Sensible Immigration Reform       

 

 

 Mike Chinoy
 CNN Hong Kong Bureau Chief
 4/18/1997

 China Live: Two Decades Inside the Heart of the Dragon
 

 

 Warren Christopher
 Former Secretary of State
 9/15/1998

 Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era

 

 

General Wesley K. Clark

Author: A Time To Lead,

Senior Fellow, Burkle Center, UCLA;

Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, NATO

November 20, 2007

A Time To Lead: America's Need

for International Strategy       


 

 Stephen P. Cohen
 Senior Analyst, The Brookings Institute
 10/21/2004

 Security Issues in South Asia

 

 

 William S. Cohen
 Secretary of Defense of the United States
 6/29/1998

 America-Confronting the Issues and Staying the Course
 

 

 Dr. Phillip Coyle
 Center for Defense Information
 3/15/2005

 Space Weapons or Space Arms Control

 

 

Vivienne Cox

Executive Vice President,

Gas, Power and Renewables, BP

9/27/2006

Why Clean Energy is Critical in Combating Climate Change: Steps to Accelerate America's Low Carbon Power Economy       

 

 

 Cyber Technology Panel
 3/29/2000

 From Cyber-Technology to Cyber-Crime
 

 

 

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 His Excellency Franz von Daniken
 State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
 10/17/2002

 Partnership Between the United States and Switzerland: Opportunities

 and Limits

 

 

 Mohammad Darawshe
 Middle East Director, OneVoice
 09/24/2003

 Empowering Palestinian and Israeli Moderates
 

 

 Jean Luc Dehaene
 Prime Minister of Belgium
 10/31/1996

 The Transatlantic Partnership: New Challenges for the Near Future
 

 

 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
 Former President, Republic of France
 2/7/2000

 How to Understand Today's Europe
 

 

 Nicolas de Torrente
 Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders, U.S.A.
 3/9/2005

 Reflections on the Tsunami, Darfur and AIDS Crises

 

 

 John M. Deutch
 Director of Central Intelligence
 7/25/1996

 The Environment on the Intelligence Agenda
 

 

Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Author, Squandered Victory

07/27/2005

Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

 

Christopher Dickey
Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor, Newsweek
10/22/2004

Fact, Fiction and Foreign Policy

 

 

Eberhard Diepgen
Governing Mayor of Berlin
4/3/1998

Berlin: Toward the Year 2000
10/22/1999

Beginning: Berlin Takes a New Shape 10 Years After the Fall
 

 

Toby Dodge
Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Author
11/13/2003

Inventing Iraq: A Failed Experiment in Nation Building
 

 

His Excellency Alexander Downer M.P.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia
1/19/2004

Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Regional Global Security Outlook

 

1/19/2005

Reforming the United Nations and Building Cooperation Towards Peace and Security

 

The Honorable David Dreier
House of Representatives (R-CA), Chairman, House Rules Committee
02/22/2005

A Roadmap to Immigration Reform in California and the Nation

 

Michael Dukakis
Chairman, Amtrak Board of Directors
03/12/2002

Security Issues and Transportation: AMTRAK's New Focus
 

His Excellency Mahmud Durrani

Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

February 23, 2007

The U.S.-Pakistan Alliance Against Terror   

 

 

 

 

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Lt. Gen Karl Eikenberry

Former Commanding General, Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan

March 16, 2007

Afghanistan: A Campaign Assessment     

 

Dr. Charles Elachi

Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Vice President, California Institute of Technology

August 7, 2008

The Order of the Phoenix Visits Mars   

 

Fernando Remirez De Estenoz
First Deputy Minister, Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10/27/1998

Cuba's Future in the Twenty-First Century"
 

 

Don Evans

United States Secretary of Commerce
07/17/2003

From Doha to Cancun: Expanding Freedom Through Trade
 

 

 

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Issam M. Fares 

Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon 
07/27/2001 

"An Update on the Peace Process"
 

 

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator from California
01/22/2003 

Iraq, Korea and American Foreign Policy
 

 

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator from California
03/28/2002 

Global Poverty and the War on Terrorism
 

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,

Columnist, Los Angeles Times,

Author, The War of the World

17/10/2006

The Age of Hatred:

What Went Wrong With Modernity   

 

 

Carly Fiorina

Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard

Author, Tough Choices: A Memoir

10/30/2006

Making Tough Choices   

 

Steve Forbes
President and Chief Executive Officer, Forbes, Inc.
1/16/1997

What Next for the Economy
 

9/20/2000

America's Agenda in the New Millennium

 

3/5/2007

The American Economy: Has it Lost it's Way?   

 

October 14, 2008

The Economy and the Elections: What to Expect


 

His Excellency Vicente Fox

Former President of Mexico

August 19, 2008

Democracy, Good Government and Development

- Mexico and Latin America    

 

Abrham H. Foxman
National Director: Anti-Defamation League
11/11/2004

Global Anti-Semitism: On the Rise Again?
 

 

The Honorable Louis J. Freeh
Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1/18/2006

My FBI

 

 

Thomas Friedman
Columnist, The New York Times
5/18/1999

Emerging from the Post Cold War Syndrome
 

 

Theodore Friend
Author, Indonesian Destinies
6/19/2003

Indonesia: Shadowed Past, Uncertain Future
 

 

 

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Jeffrey Garten
Dean, Yale School of Management

11/04/2002

New Roles and Responsibilities for Business Leaders Post 9/11

 

 

Mark D. Gearan
Director of the Peace Corps
11/9/1998

The Peace Corps Preparing for the 21st Century
 

 

His Excellency Owais Ahmed Ghani

Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan

08/06/2007

Balochistan in the 21st Century     

 

 

His Excellency Arkady Ghoukassian

of Nagorno Karabakh

11/16/2006

Resolving the Karabakh Issue 

 

Bjorn Tore Godal
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
4/1/1997

The New Europe: An Atlantic Challenge
 

 

J. J. Goldberg
Editor, The Forward

3/22/2004

American Foreign Policy and the Jewish Lobby

 

Editor, The Forward

5/10/2008

Behind the Israel Lobby Controversy  
 

His Excellency Gönül

Minister of National Defense, Republic of Turkey

02/28/2006

The Evolving Security Environment and Turkey's Strategic Role in Eurasia

 

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author, Team of Rivals

11/15/2005

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
 

 

The Honorable Slade Gorton
Member, National Commission on

Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

8/06/2004

The 9/11 Commission Report
 

 

Andrew Gowers

Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times

9/23/2004

Politics and Foreign Policy: Views from the L.A. Times and the Financial Times

 

 

Arkady Ghoukasian
President, Nagorno-Karabakh
3/1/1999 

Nagorno-Karabakh on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century
 

 

Brigadier General Eival Gilady

Head, Strategic Planning Division, Israel Defense Forces
27/07/2004

Strategy and Security in Israel

 

 

The Honorable Dan Glickman

President of the Motion Picture Association of America
11/08/2004

The Motion Picture Industry in the 21st Century: A New Golden Age?

 

 

Bob Greene
Columnist, Chicago Tribune and Life Magazine
6/13/2000

Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
 


Sir Jeremy Greenstock
Ambassador of United Kingdom to the United Nations
06/18/2002

Fighting Terrorism: The United Nations Essential Role 

 

 

The Honorable Carlos M. Gutierrez

United States Secretary of Commerce

1/10/2007

Innovation: Driving America's Economy into the 21st Century   

 

 

His Excellency António Guterres

UN High Commissioner for Refugees,

Former Prime Minister of Portugal

April 25, 2008

People on the Move in the 21st Century:

Refugees and the New Trends of Displacement    

 

 

Robert Guttman

Editor-in-Chief, TransAtlantic Magazine

9/23/2004

Politics and Foreign Policy: Views from the L.A. Times and the Financial Times


 

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Haakon
Crown Prince of Norway
6/3/1999

Norway and the United States, an Enduring Relationship
 

 

David Hackworth
Newsweek Contributing Editor

9/10/1996

Hazardous Duty: Reforming the U.S. Armed Forces
 

Author, The Price of Honor

10/26/1999
read speech
 

Author, Steel my Soldiers Hearts

06/28/2002
read speech
 


David Halberstam
Author, WAR IN A TIME OF PEACE: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
10/03/2001

War in a Time of Peace
 

 

The Honorable David Hale

U.S. Ambassador to Jordan

10/11/2006

U.S. Middle East Ambassador's Panel   

 

 

His Excellency Efraim Halevy
Director, Center for Strategic and Policy Studies,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem;

Former Director, Mossad Intelligence Agency;

Former Israeli National Security Advisor
4/6/2005

Winds of Change in the Middle East

 

 

Morton Halperin
Director of the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State
6/4/1999

Developing New Policies for New Challenges
 

 

His Excellency Koichi Haraguchi
Ambassador and Permanent representative

of Japan to the United Nations
07/20/2004

The United Nations and Japan U.S. Relations

 

 

The Honorable Jane Harman
Ranking Democrat, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
01/06/2004

The Intelligence on Iraq's WMD: Looking Back to Look Forward
 

 

Rafik Hariri
Prime Minister of Lebanon
12/18/1996

On the Reconstruction of Lebanon: Achievements and
 

 

The Honorable Richard Haass

President, Council on Foreign Relations;

Author, The Opportunity

America's Moment to Alter History's Course

 

 

El Hassan bin Talal
Prince, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
11/4/1999

Challenges and Opportunities in Resolving Regional Conflicts
 

Hussein Hassouna
Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United Nations

06/13/2005

The Role the Arab League Must Play in the Middle East

 

 

The Honorable Orrin Hatch
United States Senator from Utah
11/07/2002

Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator

 

 

Michael V. Hayden

Director, Central Intelligence Agency

September 16, 2008

The CIA's Counterproliferation Efforts    

 

 

Gordon B. Hinckley
President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
5/13/1999
The International Role of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 

06/12/2002

 

 

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto
12/05/2000

The Ingenuity Gap
 

 

His Excellency Hong Soon-Young
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
10/1/1999

Northeast Asia in the 21st Century: Envisioning the Evolution of a
 

 

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