--- title: Clintons Earned $25 Million From Paid Speeches Since 2014 description: Hillary and Bill Clinton earned a combined $25 million giving paid speeches since 2014, according to documents filed with the FEC. canonical: https://time.com/3878061/hillary-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-16T00:14:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:43.135Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clintons Earned $25 Million From Paid Speeches Since 2014 og:description: Hillary Clinton also earned $5 million on her book. og:url: https://time.com/3878061/hillary-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6e427d79805ab97/6987ee89524fc01aabdf0932/471522568.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 471522568 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clintons Earned $25 Million From Paid Speeches Since 2014 twitter:description: Hillary Clinton also earned $5 million on her book. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6e427d79805ab97/6987ee89524fc01aabdf0932/471522568.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clintons Earned $25 Million From Paid Speeches Since 2014 > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Hillary Clinton's Top 10 Political Moments [Watch (HLS stream): Hillary Clinton's Top 10 Political Moments](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/L3I0gpwt.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2015-04-09. Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell May 16, 2015 12:14 AM UTC  Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech during the David Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in Manhattan, NY April 29, 2015. Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech during the David Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in Manhattan, NY April 29, 2015. Kevin Hagen—2015 Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell May 16, 2015 12:14 AM UTC Hillary and Bill Clinton have earned a combined $25 million giving paid speeches since January 2014, a massive income boost ahead of Hillary’s candidacy for president. In addition, Hillary Clinton earned at least $5 million in income from her memoir _Hard Choices_, published in June. A senior campaign official confirmed the details of a financial disclosure form filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday. The couple’s earnings over the last year puts them among the country’s very wealthiest earners, and among the wealthiest candidates for president in 2016\. Their effective federal income tax for 2014 was more than 30%, the campaign official said. The couple has an awkward history of talking about their wealth. Justifying her speaking fees last year, Hillary said the family was “dead broke” when they left the White House. In an interview this month with NBC, Bill said he had to give paid speeches because “I gotta pay our bills.” Bill and Hillary combined have given more than 100 paid speeches since last January. Hillary has entertained clients from a camps convention to an auto dealers association. _With reporting by Philip Elliott_ ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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