List of Speeches - Twenty-first Century

Twenty-first Century

• 2001: President George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001. Text of speech.
• 2003: Iraq War Eve-of-Battle speech by British Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins.
• 2004: U.S. Democratic National Convention Keynote address by Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, which helped him become nationally known.
• 2004: Pound Cake speech by African American entertainer Bill Cosby, in which he criticized several significant aspects of modern African American culture.
• 2005: Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address. Text of speech
• 2006: Balatonőszöd speech, a strident and obscenity-laden speech made by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to fellow members of the Hungarian Socialist Party. The speech, intended to be confidential, was leaked to the media and led to mass protests.
• 2006: Chocolate City speech by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, concerning race politics in the city several months after Hurricane Katrina.
• 2007: The Last Lecture, delivered by Randy Pausch, a terminally ill computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, which became an Internet sensation and gained major media coverage.
• 2008: A More Perfect Union, in which U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama responded to controversial remarks made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor.
• 2008: Barack Obama's Election Victory speech in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois.
• 2009: A New Beginning, a speech made by U.S. President Barack Obama which was designed to reframe relations between the Islamic world and the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The President gave this speech in Cairo, Egypt, outlining his personal commitment to engagement with the Muslim world, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect, and discusses how the United States and Muslim communities around the world can bridge some of the differences that have divided them.
• 2012: Sexism and misogyny, a speech made by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in reaction to alleged sexism from opposition leader Tony Abbott.