The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is grateful to the diverse speakers we have been privileged to host on the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois University.  By providing these videos online, we are able to share the insights and inspiring stories of people who have graciously given of their time to travel to southern Illinois.  Many of them not only provided us with these remarks, but spent additional time in classrooms and small group settings with students of all ages.  We hope you enjoy these videos, which will be added to over time, and we also encourage you to join us for our upcoming programs on campus.

2008
Budget Panel - The State Budget: Priorities and Pressures
Dan Hynes - Illinois Comptroller
Ray Suarez - Senior Correspondent The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS

2007
Morris Dees - Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
Anne M. Burke - Illinois Supreme Court Justice
Catherine Bertini - Former executive director of the UN's World Food Programme
John Danforth - Former US Senator (R-Missouri)
Joan E. Higginbotham - NASA astronaut
Christopher Gardner - CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings
The Future of Moderates - Christine Todd Whitman, Ben Nelson, Jim Edgar
Barbara Flynn Currie - Illinois State Representative and House Majority Leader

2006
Henry Bayer - Executive director, Illinois AFSCME Council 31
Tom Daschle & Rodney Paige - 'No Child Left Behind' debate
Clarence Page - Nationally syndicated columnist
Jackie Spinner, Washington Post reporter

2005
Mary Ann McMorrow - First female Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
Justive Delayed - Don Cochran, Jerry Mitchell
Arthur Simon - Founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World
Walter Rodgers - Former senior international correspondent for CNN

2004
Mike Huckabee - Governor of Arkansas

2003
Paul Simon Funeral Service
Anthony Zinni - Former head of the U.S. Command in the Middle East
Autherine Lucy Foster - Civil rights pioneer

2002
Mike Farrell - Actor and human rights activist