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  • Thank you so much.

  • You know it's hard to believe that it has been eight years since

  • I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought

  • my husband should be President.

  • Remember how I told you about his character and conviction.

  • His decency and his grace, the traits that we've seen

  • every day that he served our country in the White House.

  • I also told you about our daughters. How they are the heart of our hearts,

  • the center of our world and during our time in the White House we've had the

  • joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into poised young women,

  • a journey that started soon after we arrived in Washington,

  • when they set off for their first day at their new school

  • I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls just seven and

  • ten years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.

  • And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window and the only thing

  • I could think was, What have we done?

  • See, because at that moment I realized that our time in the White House would

  • form the foundation for who they would become and how well we manage this

  • experience could truly make or break them.

  • That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect

  • our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight.

  • How we urge them to ignore those who question their father's citizenship or faith.

  • How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV

  • does not represent the true spirit of this country.

  • How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully,

  • you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

  • With every word we utter, with every action we take,

  • we know our kids are watching us.

  • We as parents are their most important role models and let me tell you

  • Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as President and First Lady because

  • we know that our words and actions matter, not just to our girls,

  • but the children across this country. Kids who tell us,

  • "I saw you on TV. I wrote a report on you for school."

  • Kids like the little black boy who looked up

  • at my husband, his eyes wide with hope and he wondered,

  • "Is my hair like yours?"

  • And make no mistake about it,

  • this November when we go to the polls,

  • that is what we're deciding. Not Democrat or Republican, not left or right.

  • No, in this election and every election

  • it's about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives

  • And I.... I am here tonight because in this election

  • there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility.

  • Only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be President

  • of the United States, and that is our friend, Hillary Clinton.

  • I trust Hillary to lead this country because I've seen her lifelong devotion to our nation's children

  • not just her own daughter who she has raised to perfection,

  • but every child who needs a champion, kids who take the long way to school to

  • avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how they'll ever afford college

  • kids whose parents don't speak a word of English but dream of a better life.

  • Kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be.

  • You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless thankless work

  • to actually make a difference in their lives,

  • advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer fighting for children's

  • health care as First Lady, and for quality childcare in the Senate

  • and when she didn't win the nomination eight years ago, she didn't get angry or disillusioned.

  • Hilary did not....

  • Hilary did not pack up and go home because, as a true public servant,

  • Hilary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments.

  • She proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as Secretary of State

  • traveling the globe to keep our kids safe. And look, there were plenty of

  • moments when Hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the

  • price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart

  • for how she looks or how she talks or even how she laughs.

  • But here's the thing.

  • What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure.

  • She never takes the easy way out

  • And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

  • And when I think about the kind of President that I want

  • for my girls and all our children,

  • that's what I want. I want someone with the proven strength to persevere,

  • someone who knows this job and takes it seriously,

  • someone who understands that the issues a President faces are not black and white

  • and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.

  • Look, because....

  • Because when...

  • When you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command,

  • you can't make snap decisions, yet you can't have a thin skin or tendency to lash out.

  • You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.

  • I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work

  • shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves.

  • We fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

  • And we give back even when we're struggling ourselves because we know that there is always

  • someone worse off out there but for the grace of God, go I.

  • I want a President who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters.

  • A President who truly believes in the vision that our founders put forth all those years ago,

  • that we are all created equal, each of the loved part of the great American story.

  • And when crisis hits, we don't turn against each other.

  • No, we we listen to each other. We lean on each other

  • because we are always stronger together.

  • And I am here tonight because I know that that is the kind of President that

  • Hillary Clinton will be and that's why in this election

  • I'm with her.

  • You see, Hillary understands that the President is about one thing and one thing only.

  • It's about leaving something better for our kids.

  • That's how we've always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children.

  • Folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class

  • because they know it takes a village.

  • Heroes of every color and creed who wear the uniform and risk their lives to

  • keep passing down those blessings of liberty.

  • Police officers and the protesters in Dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe.

  • People who lined up in Orlando to donate blood

  • because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club.

  • Leaders like Tim Kaine,

  • who show our kids what decency and devotion look like.

  • Leaders like Hillary Clinton who has the guts and the grace

  • to keep coming back and putting those cracks in that highest

  • and hardest glass ceiling and so she finally breaks through,

  • lifting all of us along with her.

  • That is the story of this country,

  • the story that has brought me to the stage tonight.

  • The story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage,

  • the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation but who kept on striving and hoping and

  • doing what needed to be done so that today

  • I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

  • And I watch my daughters, two beautiful intelligent, black young women

  • playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.

  • And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters

  • now take for granted that a woman can be President of the United States

  • Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great,

  • that somehow we need to make it great again

  • because this right now is the greatest country on earth.

  • And as my my daughters prepare to set out into the world,

  • I want a leader who is worthy of that truth.

  • A leader who is worthy of my girls' promise and all our kids' promise

  • a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope

  • and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.

  • So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope

  • that everything works out for the best.

  • We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical.

  • No, hear me.

  • Between now and November we need to do what we did eight years ago in four years ago.

  • We need to knock on every door.

  • We need to get out every vote.

  • We need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country

  • into electing Hillary Clinton as President of the United States of America.

  • Let's get to work.

  • Thank you all. God bless.

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Thank you so much.

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