--- title: Bernie Sanders Speech: Read the Transcript description: The Vermont Sen. promised that his revolution would continue until the Democratic party's July convention canonical: https://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-17T00:49:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:40:25.258Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Bernie Sanders' Speech to Supporters og:description: He pledged to take his political revolution to the Democratic convention og:url: https://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1b4713e8a1734ef/69889856524fc06948df86bd/bernie-sanders-lede.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: DEM 2016 Sanders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Bernie Sanders' Speech to Supporters twitter:description: He pledged to take his political revolution to the Democratic convention twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1b4713e8a1734ef/69889856524fc06948df86bd/bernie-sanders-lede.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Bernie Sanders' Speech to Supporters by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 17, 2016 12:49 AM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Santa Monica, Calif., on June 7, 2016. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Santa Monica, Calif., on June 7, 2016.John Locher—AP by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 17, 2016 12:49 AM UTC Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did not suspend his campaign Thursday, rather [promising](https://berniesanders.com/political-revolution-continues/) that his political “revolution” would soldier on to the Democratic party’s July convention. Read the full text of Sander’s speech below: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Bernie Sanders' Speech to Supporters","datePublished":"2016-06-17T00:49:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:40:25.258Z","description":"He pledged to take his political revolution to the Democratic convention","url":"https://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Bernie Sanders"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1b4713e8a1734ef/69889856524fc06948df86bd/bernie-sanders-lede.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1b4713e8a1734ef/69889856524fc06948df86bd/bernie-sanders-lede.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"DEM 2016 Sanders","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)","creditText":"John Locher—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/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/","name":"Read Bernie Sanders' Speech to Supporters"}}]}] ```