--- title: Hillary Clinton Transcript: Read Full Text of Clinton Campaign Launch description: Hillary Clinton held the first major rally of her campaign on Saturday canonical: https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-13T18:32:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:11:07.182Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the full text of Hillary Clinton's campaign launch speech og:description: Hillary Clinton held the first major rally of her campaign on Saturday og:url: https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40f1d13f920aa8f8/69885471e53aba18a34de2aa/hillary-clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Rodham Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the full text of Hillary Clinton's campaign launch speech twitter:description: Hillary Clinton held the first major rally of her campaign on Saturday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40f1d13f920aa8f8/69885471e53aba18a34de2aa/hillary-clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Transcript: Read the Full Text of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Launch Speech by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 13, 2015 6:32 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to supporters June 13, 2015, on Roosevelt Island in New York, in a speech promoted as her formal presidential campaign debut. Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to supporters June 13, 2015, on Roosevelt Island in New York, in a speech promoted as her formal presidential campaign debut.Frank Franklin II—AP by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 13, 2015 6:32 PM UTC Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [launched her campaign](http://time.com/3920328/hillary-clinton-campaign-launch-speech/) with a large rally in New York City on Saturday after two months of small events in the early primary states. Here is a transcript of the full remarks, as prepared for delivery: --- > “” --- Hillary Clinton Transcript: Read Full Text of Clinton Campaign Launch ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/"},"headline":"Transcript: Read the Full Text of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Launch Speech","datePublished":"2015-06-13T18:32:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:11:07.182Z","description":"Hillary Clinton held the first major rally of her campaign on Saturday","url":"https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40f1d13f920aa8f8/69885471e53aba18a34de2aa/hillary-clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40f1d13f920aa8f8/69885471e53aba18a34de2aa/hillary-clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","caption":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","creditText":"Frank Franklin II—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3920332/transcript-full-text-hillary-clinton-campaign-launch/","name":"Transcript: Read the Full Text of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Launch Speech"}}]}] ```