The 18 Best Commencement Speeches of 2012

By Ben Forer
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Actors, politicians, CEOs and others share their words of wisdom with the class of 2012:

Colin Powell at Northeastern University
 

Jane Lynch at Smith College
 

Aaron Sorkin at Syracuse University


Adam Savage at Sarah Lawrence College

Bob Woodruff at Boston College

Cory Booker at Hampton University

Oprah Winfrey at Spelman College

Sonia Sotomayor at New York University

Michael Bloomberg at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Condoleezza Rice at Southern Methodist University
 

President Obama at Barnard College

Katie Couric at the University of Virginia

Mitt Romney at Liberty University
 

Michelle Obama at Virginia Tech

Andy Samberg at Harvard

Barbara Walters at Yale

Salman Khan at Rice University

Maria Shriver at the University of Southern California

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