Past Speakers

Patrick T. Brown, Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow

Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies

Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer at National Review

Rich Lowry, Editor-in-Chief of National Review

Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute

Scott Walker, former Governor of Wisconsin

Stephen Harper, Former Prime Minister of Canada

Dick Cheney, Former Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief of Staff

Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, Inc., former Presidential Candidate

Greg Ballard, former Mayor of Indianapolis

Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House of Representatives and 2012 Presidential Candidate

Rick Santorum, former Senator of Pennsylvania and 2012 Presidential Candidate

Kimberly Guilfoyle, co-host of Fox News' "The Five"

Ben Carson, HUD Secretary and 2016 Presidential Candidate

Ward Connerly, founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute

Allen West, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and former Representative of Florida

Charles Krauthammer, columnist

Scott Brown, Ambassador to New Zealand, former Senator of Massachusetts

Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida

Nancy Zimpher, SUNY Chancellor

Tom Tancredo, former Representative of Colorado

Ron Paul, Texas Congressman and 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate

Paul Wolfowitz, former President of the World Bank, Ambassador to Indonesia, and Deputy Secretary of Defense

Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of the DC Public Schools System

Marc Thiessen, Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld

Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush

Rick Lazio, former Representative of New York

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and best-selling author

Luis Fortuno, former Governor of Puerto Rico

Star Parker, award-winning author and columnist

Ed Cox, Chairman of the NY State GOP

John Ashcroft, former Attorney General, Governor of Missouri, and U.S. Senator

Oliver North, military historian and former Marine Corps. officer

Ann Coulter '84, journalist, political commentator, and founder of the Cornell Review

Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate

George Pataki, former Governor of New York

Dinesh D'Souza, author and research fellow at the Hoover Institute