Welcome
Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Barack Obama: The Economy. Osawatomie, Kansas: December 2011
- Alan Shore: ‘Boston Legal’ The Mighty Rogues, 2008
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Enda Kenny: Response to Cloyne Report, 2011
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007