The way this came through, the speaker is unidentified, but there is no mistaking whose voice this is.
Presidential Memorandum on Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls Globally
Press Statement
Washington, DCJanuary 31, 2013
The Obama Administration has made it clear that advancing the rights of women and girls is critical to the foreign policy of the United States. This is a matter of national security as much as it is an issue of morality or fairness. President Obama’s National Security Strategy explicitly recognizes that “countries are more peaceful and prosperous when women are accorded full and equal rights and opportunity. When those rights and opportunities are denied, countries lag behind.”
That’s why I’m so pleased about the Presidential Memorandum that President Obama signed yesterday, which institutionalizes an elevated focus on global women’s issues at the State Department and USAID and ensures coordination on these issues across the federal government. And it is so important that incoming Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his support for the continued elevation of these issues in our foreign policy.
As I have said many times, protecting and advancing the rights of women are critical to solving virtually every challenge we face as individual nations and as a community of nations. We have made great progress, but there is more to do. This is the unfinished business of the 21st Century, and it is essential that it remains central to our foreign policy for years to come.
Sure sounds like Glinda. Did I say yet that I’m going to miss her? ::sigh:: Sleep well, Madam Secretary. Get lots of sleep. 😉
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Fighting for us to the very end, despite a concussion, blood clot and possibly double vision.
It’s tough being the weaker sex.
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She is busily locking in all of her innovations.
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God Bless her. I saw her on c-span3 watching the Foreign Relations Councel. She was awesome. Gee, we are going to miss her so much. We love you Hillary enjoy your life what ever it will be.
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I heard some of the livefeed. I am waiting for the video to be available.
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I watched the whole broadcast, as always it was impressive, and she say the above reference and the audience applauded her!
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