You can read more about her trip, including transcripts from her speeches, here.
The amiable Ms Ypsilanti, meanwhile, has begun to master policy and smarten up her speeches.
She says in all of her speeches that she is ready to lead from day one.
As our conversation proceeded, I asked her if she ever memorized her speeches and she said no.
Democrats retort that Ms Sotomayor's long and modest record as a judge is more important than her speeches.
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She said it was a theme she had constantly used in her speeches since taking on her role last year.
In her speeches, she often discussed her "Latina soul" and explained how even the traditional dishes of her Puerto Rican family shaped her views.
And I think Secretary Clinton has made a very comprehensive case for it -- we've seen in some of her published work and some of her speeches.
Listening to her speeches, with their longing for a lost, spit-shine world, one could sometimes mistake her, were it not for the emphasis on social justice, for a law-and-order Republican.
Her speeches have been very well received in all of her travel, and so we would point you to those remarks, I think which we should be able to make available to you and your colleagues as well.
By contrast, her speeches to MSPs, in Aberdeen, on the Mound and then at Holyrood, tread a more cautious and subtle diplomatic path between stressing the distinct nature of Scotland and placing that distinction within a wider British context.
If Iraq had been an unequivocal success, she would have talked about it in her speeches, and offered praise to those who had been involved - as she did to the elder George Bush when she visited Washington in 1991 after the first Gulf War.
Mrs Clinton gave one of her better speeches.
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Flynt remained a loyal O'Hair supporter and tapped her to write speeches for his 1984 presidential bid.
She is an advocate of organ donation and travels to deliver speeches about her experience.
There are two standout speeches - her mad fantasy about helping Hippolytus find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth and later her deranged imaginings about his love for the captive princess Aricia (Ruth Negga).
More than a few of those are reforms that she herself had promoted in her writings, board memberships, speeches, media comments and government service.
Glance through the speeches delivered on the occasions when Her Majesty has opened the sundry devolved Parliaments thus far.
Palin also proved she inherited President Bush's gift for sprinkling speeches with Biblical references -- like her claim of a "servant's heart" -- that won't register with much of the population, but resonate deeply with evangelicals.
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Clinton is not expected to make a decision anytime soon and has outlined plans to write a memoir about her time at the State Department, advocate on behalf of women and girls and give speeches.
During her brief green period in the late 1980s she shocked first the Royal Society then the UN with speeches crackling with environmental passion.
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