--- ---  # Read Former President Bill Clinton's Commencement Address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 14, 2017 9:30 PM UTC  Bill Clinton in New York City, on April 18, 2017. Bill Clinton in New York City, on April 18, 2017.Amy Sussman—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 14, 2017 9:30 PM UTC [_Former President Clinton_](http://time.com/4778461/bill-clinton-hobart-and-william-smith-colleges-commencement-speech-immigration/) _gave the_ [_graduation address_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMs3Dt0MjaE) _Sunday at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. See his remarks as provided on the Hobart and William Smith Colleges_ [_website_](http://www.hws.edu/news/transcripts/17/clinton.aspx)_._ --- > “” --- Bill Clinton Addresses Hobart and William Smith Colleges ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4778434/bill-clinton-hobart-william-smith-colleges-graduation-commencement-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778434/bill-clinton-hobart-william-smith-colleges-graduation-commencement-2017/"},"headline":"Read Former President Bill Clinton's Commencement Address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges","datePublished":"2017-05-14T21:30:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:54:50.906Z","description":"\"We should relish our differences\"","url":"https://time.com/4778434/bill-clinton-hobart-william-smith-colleges-graduation-commencement-2017/","keywords":["Education","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c9fb8601dc3709/6988cd2a97cdff78e56b0b02/bill-clinton-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19c9fb8601dc3709/6988cd2a97cdff78e56b0b02/bill-clinton-fb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bill Clinton","caption":"Bill Clinton in New York City, on April 18, 2017.","creditText":"Amy Sussman—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/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4778434/bill-clinton-hobart-william-smith-colleges-graduation-commencement-2017/","name":"Read Former President Bill Clinton's Commencement Address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges"}}]}] ```