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DNC ... HILLARY CLINTON

C-SPAN: Hillary Clinton Full Speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention


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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess
Hillary Clinton Full Speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention

C-SPAN

Aug 19, 2024

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Hillary Clinton at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL: 'We refused to give up on America. Millions marched. Many ran for office. We kept our eyes on the future. Well, my friends, the future is here! I wish my mother and Kamala's mother could see us. They would say, 'Keep going!''
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#cspan Transcript
  • 0:00
  • please welcome former Secretary of State
  • Hillary
  • Clinton I
  • Tok you
  • thank you so much thank
  • you thank
  • you thank you all so much

  • 1:02
  • thank
  • you thank you my fellow
  • Democrats thank you my fellow Americans
  • thank you so
  • much
  • yo thank you
  • all thank you thank
  • you thank you

  • 2:00
  • thank
  • you thank you so
  • much
  • wow there's a lot of energy in this room
  • just like there is across the
  • country something something is happening
  • in
  • America you can feel
  • it something we've worked for and
  • dreamed of for a long
  • time first
  • though let's salute President
  • Biden he he has
  • been democracy's champion at home and
  • abroad

  • 3:00
  • he brought
  • dignity decency and confidence back to
  • the White
  • House and he showed what it means to be
  • a true
  • patriot thank you Joe Biden for your
  • lifetime of service and Leadership
  • and
  • now and now we are writing a new chapter
  • in America's story you know my mother
  • Dorothy was born right here in Chicago
  • before women had the right to
  • vote that change

  • 4:01
  • 104 years ago
  • yesterday think about it Tennessee
  • became the final
  • state to ratify the 19th Amendment to
  • the
  • Constitution the state legislature was
  • deadlocked
  • until one lawmaker's mother a Widow who
  • read three newspapers a day sent a
  • letter a letter to her son no more
  • delays she wrote give us the vote and
  • since that day every generation has
  • carried the torch forward in 1972 a
  • Fearless black congresswoman named
  • Shirley Chisum

  • 5:06
  • she ran for
  • president and her determination let me
  • and millions of others dream bigger not
  • just because of who she was but because
  • of who she fought for working parents
  • poor children the last the least and the
  • lost in
  • 1984 I brought my daughter to see
  • Geraldine Ferraro the first woman
  • nominated for vice
  • president if we can do this Jerry said
  • we can do
  • anything and then there was 2016 when it
  • was the honor of my life to accept our
  • party's nomination for president

  • 6:09
  • and and nearly 66 million Americans
  • voted for a future where there are no
  • ceilings on our
  • dreams and
  • afterwards we refused to give up on
  • America Millions marched many ran for
  • office we kept our eyes on the future
  • well my friends the future is
  • here I wish my mother and kamla's mother
  • could see us they would say keep going
  • shley and Jerry would say keep

  • 7:08
  • going
  • women women fighting for Reproductive
  • Health Care are saying keep
  • going families building Better Lives
  • parents stretching to afford Child Care
  • young people struggling to pay their
  • rent they're all asking us to keep
  • going
  • so with faith in each other and joy in
  • our hearts let's send kamla Harris and
  • Tim Walls to the White
  • House you know

  • 8:03
  • the story of my life and the history of
  • our country is that progress is possible
  • but not
  • guaranteed we have to fight for it and
  • never ever give up there is always a
  • choice do we push forward or pull back
  • come together as we the people or split
  • into US versus them
  • that's the choice we face in this
  • election kamla has the character
  • experience and vision to lead us
  • forward I know her heart and her
  • Integrity we both got our start as young
  • lawyers helping children who were abused
  • and neglected
  • that kind of work changes a person those

  • 9:03
  • kids stay with you kamla carries with
  • her the hopes of every child she
  • protected every family she helped every
  • Community she served so as president she
  • will always have our
  • backs and she will be a fighter for us
  • she will fight to lower costs for
  • hardworking families open the doors wide
  • for good paying jobs and yes she will
  • restore abortion rights
  • Nationwide as a
  • prosecutor kamla lock up murderers and

  • 10:00
  • Drug traffickers she will never rest in
  • defense of our freedom and
  • safety Donald Trump fell asleep at his
  • own trial and when he woke up he made
  • his own kind of History the first person
  • to run for president with 34 felony
  • convictions
  • as vice
  • president as vice president Kamala sat
  • in the Situation Room

  • 11:02
  • but we also know as vice president
  • Kamala sat in the situation room and
  • stood for America's values I know what
  • it takes and I can tell you as commander
  • and chief kamla won't disrespect our
  • military and our
  • veterans
  • she she reveres our Medal of Honor
  • recipients she won't be sending love
  • letters to
  • [Applause]
  • 11:43
  • dictators she will defend democracy and
  • 11:47
  • our
  • 11:48
  • Constitution and will protect America
  • 11:51
  • from enemies foreign and domestic

  • 12:01
  • think about it the Constitution says the
  • 12:06
  • president's job is to take care that the
  • 12:11
  • laws be Faithfully executed those are
  • 12:15
  • the words of our Founders take care just
  • 12:19
  • look at the
  • 12:21
  • candidates Cent cares cares about kids
  • 12:25
  • and families cares about
  • 12:27
  • America Donald only cares about
  • 12:31
  • [Applause]
  • 12:33
  • himself on her first day in court kamla
  • 12:38
  • said five words that still guide her
  • 12:42
  • kamla Harris for the
  • 12:48
  • people that is something that Donald
  • 12:51
  • Trump will never understand so it is no
  • 12:55
  • surprise is it that he is lying about
  • 12:58
  • comm's record he's mocking her name and

  • 13:02
  • her laugh sounds
  • 13:08
  • familiar but we have him on the run
  • 13:22
  • now
  • 13:23
  • so so no matter what the polls say we
  • 13:29
  • can't let
  • 13:31
  • up we can't get driven down crazy
  • 13:36
  • conspiracy rabbit holes we have to fight
  • 13:39
  • for the truth we have to fight for kamla
  • 13:42
  • as she will fight for us because you
  • 13:45
  • know
  • 13:46
  • what it still takes a village to raise a
  • 13:49
  • family heal a country and win a campaign

  • 14:00
  • and America needs every one of us our
  • energy our talents our
  • dreams we're not just electing a
  • president we're uplifting our
  • nation we're opening the promise of
  • America wide enough for
  • everyone together we put a lot of cracks
  • in the highest hardest glass ceiling
  • and
  • tonight tonight so close to breaking
  • through once and for all I want to tell
  • you what I see through all those cracks
  • and why it matters for each and every
  • one of us what do I see I see
  • freedom I
  • see the freedom to make our own
  • decisions about our our health Our lives

  • 15:01
  • our loves our
  • families the freedom to work with
  • dignity and prosper to worship as we
  • choose or not to speak our minds freely
  • and
  • honestly I see Freedom From Fear and
  • intimidation from violence and Injustice
  • from chaos and
  • Corruption I see the freedom to look our
  • children in the eye and say in America
  • you can go as far as your hard work and
  • talent will take you and mean it and you
  • know what on the other side of that
  • glass ceiling is kamla Harris raising
  • her hand and taking the oath of office
  • as our 47th president of the United
  • United

  • 16:09
  • States
  • because my friends when a barrier Falls
  • for one of us it falls it falls and
  • clears the way for all of us so for the
  • next 78 days we need to work harder than
  • we ever have we need to beat back the
  • dangers that Trump and his allies pose
  • to the rule of law and our way of life
  • don't get distracted or complacent talk
  • to your friends and Neighbors volunteer
  • be proud champions for the truth and for
  • the country that we all
  • love I
  • want I want my grandchildren and their

  • 17:01
  • grandchildren to know I was here at this
  • moment that we were here and that we
  • were with pela Harris every step of the
  • way this is our time America this is
  • when we stand up this is when we break
  • through the future is here it's in our
  • grass let's go with it
  • this is
  • my still gotot l in me I think it's fair
  • to say


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