--- title: Hillary Clinton Goes Back Through The Years In New Ad description: In a new campaign ad meant to inspire Iowa voters to caucus for her, Clinton presents clips of herself going back decades. canonical: https://time.com/4194032/hillary-clinton-ad-children-iowa/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T16:09:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:40:54.752Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Goes Back Through The Years In New Ad og:description: In a new campaign ad meant to inspire Iowa voters to caucus for her, Clinton presents clips of herself going back decades. og:url: https://time.com/4194032/hillary-clinton-ad-children-iowa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted35714e9fa6972d/69887a4a0b72e386236e7c80/hillary-clinton8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens to questions at the Rochester Opera House campaign town hall meeting in Rochester, New Hampshire January 22, 2016. 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But stringing together video clips from so many years also serves to remind voters of her long career in politics, what TIME’s Sam Frizell calls her “[hard-won pragmatism](http://time.com/4193647/hillary-clinton-activist-record-iowa/?xid=tcoshare).” Clinton commands a lead in national polls, but in [a recent Iowa poll](http://time.com/4189537/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-poll-iowa/), Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders came out ahead with 51% support to her 43%. ## Transcript One of the areas that I have been particularly interested in is the area of children. All of us have a responsibility to ourselves, to our children, to each other. We intend to be sure that everybody in this room and every child in this state is somebody. No matter where they're born, no matter to whom they are born. Our children's future is shaped both by the values of their parents and the policies of their nation. It's time to protect the next generation. Fill the lives of our children with possibility and hope. Open up the doors So that every child has a chance to live up to his or her god given potential. And I've spent my life fighting for children, families and our country, and I'm not stopping now. 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