--- title: Hillary Clinton Nomination: Victory Speech Transcript description: Here's what Hillary Clinton said Tuesday during her victory speech after becoming the first female presumptive nominee of a major party canonical: https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-08T12:43:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:27:47.023Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Historic Primary Victory Speech og:description: "What I care about most is the history our country has yet to write" og:url: https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5169deb007593403/698896ecab6d7711736a9fd4/hillary-clinton-speech-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Hillary Clinton's Historic Primary Victory Speech twitter:description: "What I care about most is the history our country has yet to write" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5169deb007593403/698896ecab6d7711736a9fd4/hillary-clinton-speech-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Hillary Clinton's Historic Victory Speech as Presumptive Democratic Nominee  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 8, 2016 12:43 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton thanks her supporters at a rally at Duggan Greenhouse Building in Brooklyn, New York on June 7, 2016. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton thanks her supporters at a rally at Duggan Greenhouse Building in Brooklyn, New York on June 7, 2016.Selcuk Acar—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 8, 2016 12:43 PM UTC Hillary Clinton [declared victory Tuesday night](http://time.com/4360888/hillary-clinton-nomination-brooklyn-speech-win/) as the first woman to become the presumptive presidential nominee of a major political party. Speaking to supporters at a rally in Brooklyn, she [connected the moment](http://time.com/4360848/hillary-clinton-nomination-brooklyn-speech/?xid=homepage) to [generations of women](http://time.com/4360781/hillary-clinton-presidential-nomination-woman/) and men who have fought for equality. “I’m going to take a moment later tonight and the days ahead to fully absorb the history we’ve made here,” she said during the speech. “But what I care about most is the history our country has yet to write. Our children and grandchildren will look back at this time, at the choices we are about to make, the goals we will strive for, the principles we will live by. And we need to make sure that they can be proud of us.” Here are her remarks from the Brooklyn Navy Yard: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Hillary Clinton's Historic Victory Speech as Presumptive Democratic Nominee","datePublished":"2016-06-08T12:43:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:27:47.023Z","description":"\"What I care about most is the history our country has yet to write\"","url":"https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5169deb007593403/698896ecab6d7711736a9fd4/hillary-clinton-speech-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5169deb007593403/698896ecab6d7711736a9fd4/hillary-clinton-speech-transcript.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end","caption":"Clinton claims nomination as primaries near end","creditText":"Selcuk Acar—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images","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":"https://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/","name":"Read Hillary Clinton's Historic Victory Speech as Presumptive Democratic Nominee"}}]}] ```