speeches

President Obama came to the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner as keynote speaker, looking like a slightly geeky 007 with an excellent comedy routine. (13 min)

Al Jazeera sums up Nov 4, 2004, the historic day when Barack Obama became the 44th US president. (3:18 min) AP shows a longer excerpt of Obama’s Change Has Come speech. (2:51)

Significant speeches at the 2008 Democratic National Convention…
Barack Obama | Al Gore | Joe Biden | Bill Clinton | John Kerry | Hillary Clinton | Michelle Obama

Barack Obama addresses a crowd of over 200,000 people in Tiergarten, Berlin. (26:19 min)

Delivered to over two hundred thousand civil rights supporters in 1963, this Martin Luther King speech is often considered to be one of the greatest speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. (17:28 min)