Representative American speeches, 2011-2012 / edited by Brian Boucher.

Contributor Boucher, Brian.

Imprint:Ipswich, MA : H. W. Wilson, 2013.

Descriptionxvi, 195 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:REMARKS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS: Do big things / Michelle Obama -- Yes, and / Jane Lynch -- Four truths / Bob Woodruff -- Memory and ethics / Elie Wiesel -- Bear witness / Billy Shore -- The Fourth instinct / Arianna Huffington -- The Importance of saying "yes" / David Evans.

Note:DEBATE ON THE CONGRESSIONAL FLOOR: Floor statement on the DISCLOSE Act / Senator John McCain -- The American people are angry / Senator Bernie Sanders -- The Middle-class tax cut act / Senator Carl Levin -- The Health-care decision of the Supreme Court / Senator Mike Enzi -- The Affordable Care Act / Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- The Paycheck Fairness Act / Senator Debbie Stabenow -- Dark money donors, show yourselves / Representative Raul Grijalva -- Fiscal responsibility / Senator Dianne Feinstein -- Republican intransigence and obstruction / Representative Steny Hoyer -- Let the tide rise for all boats / Representative Mike Kelly.

Note:A DECADE AFTER 9/11: Joy cometh in the morning / President Barack Obama -- Al-Qaeda after Bin-Laden: implications for American strategy / Brian Michael Jenkins -- Strength in resilience / Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Remarks at the Pentagon on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 / Vice President Joe Biden -- My personal jihad / Maham Khan -- The Great American spirit / Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta -- Tenth anniversary of 9/11 / Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

Note:EDUCATION TODAY: Res non verba: Deeds, not words / U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller -- Education is essential to a better life / Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta -- Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the State Higher Education Executive Officers' Higher Education Policy Conference / U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Here's to another outstanding twenty-five years / Joanne Weiss, chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Investing in America's future / Assistant Secretary of Education Brenda Dann-Messier.

Note:OCCUPY WALL STREET: Who rules? By what authority? / Virginia Rasmussen -- Don't stop until you have restored democracy / Lawrence Lessig -- We the people / Judith Butler -- The Occupy movement: we'd better pay attention / Bobby Rush.

Note:PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET: We will not fail our children / U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan -- Victim impact statement / Jane Clementi -- Online and overexposed: consumer privacy, the FTC, and the rise of the cyberazzi / Federal Trade Commission Chair Jon Leibowitz -- Internet privacy / Edith Ramirez.

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