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!
- Steve Jobs: Stanford University, 2005
- Bill Cosby: Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremony, 2007
- Barack Obama: Democratic Convention speech, September 2012
- Admiral William H. McRaven: Commencement Address, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
- Mitt Romney: The Secret Video: August 2012
- David Cameron: Acceptance speech, 2010
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Bernie Saunders, “Fighting Oligarchy”, Folsom, April 15, 2025
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson: War on Poverty, 1964
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work