Kennedy Political Union (KPU) Speakers
Notable speakers past (in alphabetical order)
- Madeleine Albright – former U.S. Secretary of State
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – former NBA basketball star
- Benazir Bhutto – Former prime minister of Pakistan
- Cherie Blair – barrister, wife to Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Candace Bushnell – "Sex in the City" creator
- The Capitol Steps political satire singing group
- Tucker Carlson – CNN political commentator, host of Crossfire
- James Carville – political consultant
- Linda Chavez – AFL–CIO chair
- Andrei Cherny – President Clinton's speechwriter
- Joe Clark – Former Prime Minister of Canada
- Eldridge Cleaver – Former chief publicist of the Black Panthers
- Dalai Lama – religious leader
- Arthur E. Dewey – assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration,
- Bob Dole – Former US Presidential candidate, Senator
- Elizabeth Edwards – Breast cancer awareness advocate and wife of John Edwards
- John Edwards – Former US Presidential and Vice President candidate, Senator
- Ari Fleischer – President Bush's Press Secretary
- Jane Fonda – actress, political activist
- Newt Gingrich – former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
- John Glenn – astronaut, US Senator
- Dan Glickman – President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
- Mikhail Gorbachev – Former leader of the Soviet Union
- Jack Gordon – moderator of the CNN show Capital Gang, political commentator
- Tipper Gore – Former Second Lady, political activist
- Darrell Green – cornerback for the Washington Redskins
- Charlton Heston – actor, gun-rights activist
- David Ivry – Israeli Ambassador to the US
- John F. Kennedy – President of the United States
- Ted Kennedy – Senator
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – lawyer and author
- Coretta Scott King – political activist, wife of MLK Jr.
- John Legend - singer, musician, and political activist
- Felipe Luciano – reporter, poet, activist, first Puerto Rican to anchor the news for WNBC in New York, Young Lords Party chairman
- Mary Matalin – political consultant
- Chris Matthews - NBC/MSNBC host and commentator
- Norman Mineta – former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- George Pataki – Governor of New York
- Colin Powell – Secretary of State
- Phyllis Schlafly – political author, commentator
- Bobby Seale – Black Panther
- Rev. Al Sharpton – civil rights leader and activist
- Martin Sheen – actor, political activist
- Mark Shields – CNN commentator
- Nadine Strossen – president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- John Sweeney – president of the AFL-CIO
- Helen Thomas – White House correspondent
- Desmond Tutu – South African cleric and activist
- Bradley Whitford – actor, political activist
- John Wood, – New Zealand Ambassador to the US
- Bob Woodward – The Washington Post editor
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