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!
- Bill Gates: Harvard, June 2007
- Barack Obama: Democratic Convention speech, September 2012
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
- Woody Allen: Hannah and Her Sisters
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- Bernie Saunders, “Fighting Oligarchy”, Folsom, April 15, 2025
- Tony Blair: Labour Party Conference, 2006