Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

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🗓️ 16 October 2010

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Greg Dalton, Founder of Climate One, moderator In just her third appearance before a US audience as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton touts the potential of American innovation to further public diplomacy and to help tackle a host of global challenges. Before a sold-out Commonwealth Club crowd of 1,500, Clinton comments on global flashpoints – Afghanistan, Iran, and Mexico – while addressing climate change and clean energy. Clinton repeatedly stresses the need to leverage the creativity of Silicon Valley with work underway at her department. “Innovation is one of America's greatest values and products,” she says, “and we are very committed to working with scientists and researchers to look for new ways to develop hardier crops or lifesaving drugs at affordable costs, working with engineers for new sources of clean energy or clean water to both stem climate change and also to improve the standard of living for people.” In the Q&A, Climate One founder Greg Dalton asks Clinton if the State Department would reconsider granting a permit for the controversial Alberta Clipper Pipeline. Clinton concedes that while a final decision had not been made, the project is likely to go ahead: “We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet.” Clinton also comments on Senate’s failure to act on climate change. “I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone how deeply disappointed the President and I are about our inability to get the kind of legislation through the Senate that the United States was seeking,” she says. Clinton closes with advice for Ellie, a 10-year-old who expresses concern for the future environment. “I think that there is a lot that you can do, because it's been my experience that young people are much more environmentally conscious and committed to protecting the world you're growing up in than some of us older people are,” she says. “I'm out of politics, as you all know. So speaking as a private citizen,” she adds, to laughter, “I think people running for office should be asked to explain their positions on what they're going to do.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 15, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.0	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate one founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the
0:55.6	matter. It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.8	It's my great pleasure this evening to introduce the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton,
1:06.1	our nation's 67th Secretary of State. As you all know, Secretary Clinton has distinguished herself
1:13.6	over four decades in public service as an advocate for human rights, skilled attorney,
1:21.6	First Lady of Arkansas and of our great nation and United States Senator from the great state of New York.
1:41.0	Secretary Clinton joined the State Department in January 2009, and since taking on this very important post, has visited 64 countries around the world, promoting global economic growth, strengthening America's relationship with other nations and advancing the concepts of
2:04.4	democracy and civil society. Please join me in welcoming Secretary Clinton.
2:12.5	I'm going to take the blue one, Thank you. Take care. Good evening. This is such a great treat personally to be back in San Francisco, and it's somewhat disconcerting because this is only the third
2:41.0	place in the United States that I have spoken since I became Secretary of State.
2:47.9	And the first place, which some may question whether it still is in the United States,
2:58.6	is, of course, Washington, where I have spoken several times, and in Hawaii on my way to Asia.
3:06.5	I have been invited to come to the Commonwealth Club many times over the years
3:13.3	and was unable to accept that kind invitation.
3:18.0	But I thought it would be an appropriate time for me to have this conversation.
3:25.0	I want to thank Dr. Bitterman for that introduction, and I want to thank Gloria Duffy and
3:31.0	Greg Dalton, who will soon join me on the stage to ask your questions, and all of the
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