--- 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: 2026-08-19T07:48:30.999Z 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2384 og:image:height: 1341 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Transcript: Read the Full Text of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Launch Speech > Sponsored content. 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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. 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