Subject: **ICYMI: Hillary Clinton's Remarks from SC GOTV Rally**
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alexandria Phillips <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:31:19 -0500
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All -

In case you missed Secretary Clinton's inspiring victory speech in South
Carolina last night, I wanted to send you the full transcript.

Thank you!!

Adrienne

Remarks at a Get out the Vote Event

February 26, 2016

*HILLARY CLINTON:*  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you so much, South
Carolina.

*AUDIENCE:*  Hillary!  Hillary!  Hillary!

*HILLARY CLINTON:*  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you so much
from one end of this state to another.  I am so greatly appreciative
because today, you sent a message: in America, when we stand together –
(applause) – when we stand together, there is no barrier too big to break.
(Applause.)  We’ve now gone through four early states and I want to
congratulate Senator Sanders on running a great race.  (Applause.)  And
tomorrow, this campaign goes national.  (Applause.)

We are going to compete for every vote in every state.  We are not taking
anything, and we’re not taking anyone, for granted.  (Applause.)  I want to
thank all the local leaders, legislators, mayors, pastors, organizers,
volunteers who have worked their heart out for this campaign.  I thank all
of our great South Carolina friends going back so many years.  I especially
want to thank two of your former great Democratic governors, Dick Riley and
Jim Hodges.  (Applause.)  And I especially want to thank your champion,
your statesman in Congress, Jim Clyburn.  (Applause.)  I am so looking
forward to working the congressman to make the changes and continue the
progress that we can build on the record and accomplishments of President
Obama.  (Applause.)  And to the almost 850,000 people who have contributed
what they could, most giving less than $100, I thank each and every one of
you.

Now, every day since Iowa, more and more of you have stepped up.  Today,
grassroots donors are powering this campaign.  (Applause.)  And to the
millions of people watching across our country, please join us by making a
donation to hillaryclinton.com.  (Applause.)  And here’s why: because
together, we can break down all the barriers holding our families and our
country back.  We can build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every
single American can have that chance to live up to his or her God-given
potential.  (Applause.)  And then – then, and only then – can America live
up to its full potential too.  (Applause.)

This campaign and this victory tonight is for the parents and teachers in
rural South Carolina.  (Applause.)  They showed me crumbling classrooms in
communities too long neglected.  We’re going to work together to give our
children the education they need and deserve here in South Carolina and
across America.  (Applause.)  This campaign and our victory is for the
entrepreneur who told me more dreams die in the parking lots of banks than
anywhere else, and that’s especially true for women and people of color.
So we’re going to work together to give people, particularly young people,
the tools you need – (applause) – to start that small business you’ve been
dreaming of.

And this campaign and our victory is for the reverend, a presiding elder of
the AME Church, who looked at all the violence and division in our country
and asked me the other night how – how are we ever going to strengthen the
bonds of family and community again?  Well, we’re going to start by working
together.  With more love and kindness in our hearts and more respect for
each other, even when we disagree.  (Applause.)

Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again; America
has never stopped being great.  (Applause.)  But we do need to make America
whole again. (Applause.)  Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing
down barriers.  (Applause.)  We need to show, by everything we do, that we
really are in this together.  Today, too many people at the top, too many
corporations, have forgotten this basic truth about what makes America
great.  Prescription drug companies that increase the price of drugs for no
reason than greed, and then double and triple bills of folks overnight;
corporations that use show games to shift their headquarters overseas for
no other reason than to avoid paying their fair share of taxes; companies
like Johnson Controls, an auto parts company in Wisconsin, that we
taxpayers helped to save with the auto rescue in 2008.  Now, let there be
no doubt in any boardroom or executive suite across this country: if you
cheat your employees, exploit your customers, pollute our environment, or
rip off the taxpayers, we will hold you accountable.  (Applause.)  If you
turn your back on America, you’ll pay a price.  But if you do the right
thing – if you invest in your workers and in your country’s future – then
we will stand with you.

Now, together we have to break down all the barriers – not just some.  It’s
important that Wall Street never threaten Main Street again.  No bank can
be too big to fail and no executive too powerful to jail.  (Applause.)  But
America isn’t a single-issue country, my friends.  We need more than a plan
for the biggest banks.  The middle class needs a raise.  (Applause.)  And
we need more good jobs.  (Applause.)  Jobs that pay well and can’t be
outsourced.  (Applause.)  Jobs that provide dignity and a path to a
brighter future, and we can create those good jobs by building on the
progress we’ve made under President Obama.  So let’s make new investments
in manufacturing and small business, in scientific research, in clean
energy – enough clean energy to power every home in America.  (Applause.)

And don’t let anybody tell you we can’t make things in America.  I know we
can and I know we will.  (Applause.)  Let’s break down the barriers that
keep people on the sidelines of our economy, especially women.
(Applause.)  Don’t you think we’ve waited long enough for quality,
affordable childcare and paid family leave?  Don’t you think it’s time for
equal pay for equal work?  (Applause.)  And let’s break down the barriers
that stop our children from getting the best possible start in life.  We
need to support great teachers and great schools in every ZIP code.
(Applause.)  Let’s break down the barriers holding back our young people,
especially the student debt that makes it hard to imagine ever living the
life you want.  (Applause.)  And we are going to give special support to
our historically black colleges and universities which play a vital role in
this state and across our country.  (Applause.)

Now, breaking down all the barriers means we also have to face the reality
of systemic racism that, more than a half a century after Rosa Parks sat
and Dr. King marched and John Lewis bled, still plays a significant role in
determining who gets ahead in America and who gets left behind.  We have to
invest in communities of color, reform our broken criminal justice and
immigration systems.  (Applause.)  We have to guarantee opportunity,
dignity and justice for every American.  And tonight, I want to pay tribute
to five extraordinary women who crisscrossed this state with me and for me
– five mothers brought together by tragedy:  Sybrina Fulton, mother of
Trayvon Martin, shot and killed in Florida just for walking down the
street; Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis, shot and killed by someone
who thought he was playing his music too loud in his car; Maria Hamilton,
mother of Dontre, shot and killed by police in Milwaukee; Gwen Carr, mother
of Eric Garner, choked to death after being stopped for selling loose
cigarettes on the street; and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland, who
died in police custody in Texas.  They all lost children, which is almost
unimaginable.  Yet they have not been broken or embittered.  Instead, they
have channeled their sorrow into a strategy and their mourning into a
movement.  And they are reminding us of something deep and powerful in the
American spirit.

By now, we all know the story of Flint, Michigan – how a city’s children
were poisoned by toxic water because their governor wanted to save a little
money.  But there’s another side to the story in Flint.  It’s a story of a
community that’s been knocked down but refused to be knocked out.  It’s
hundreds of union plumbers coming from across the country to help install
new water fixtures.  It’s students raising funds for water deliveries and
showing up in Flint to distribute supplies.  It’s the United Auto Workers
and General Motors donating millions of dollars.  We know there are many
other Flints out there – communities that have been left out and left
behind.

But for every problem we face anywhere in America, someone somewhere is
working to solve it.  Our country was built by people who had each other’s
backs, who understood we all have to do our part, and that at our best, we
all rise together.  Imagine what we can all build together when each and
every American has the chance to live up to his or her potential.  Imagine
a tomorrow where no child grows up in the shadow of discrimination or under
the specter of deportation.  Imagine a tomorrow where every parents can
find a good job and every grandparent can enjoy a secure retirement.
Imagine a tomorrow where hard work is honored, families are supported, and
communities are strong.  When we trust and respect each other, despite all
that divides us.

So please, join us in this campaign for our country’s future.  Go to
hillaryclinton.com or text “Join,” J-o-i-n, to 47246 right now.

On one of my first trips to South Carolina during this campaign, I stopped
by a bakery here in Columbia.  I was just saying hello to everybody.  I
went over to say hello to a man reading a book in the corner.  It turned
out he was a minister and the book was a Bible.  He was studying I
Corinthians 13, which happens to be one of my favorite passages.  “Love
never fails,” it tells us, “love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.”  (Applause.)  These are words to
live by, not only for ourselves, but also for our country.  I know it
sometimes seems a little odd for someone running for president in these
days, in this time, to say we need more love and kindness in America.  But
I’m telling you from the bottom of my heart we do.  We do.  We have so much
to look forward to.  There is no doubt in my mind that America’s best years
can be ahead of us.  We have got to believe that.  We’ve got to work for
that.  We have to stand with each other.  We have to hold each other up,
lift each other up, move together into the future that we will make.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.  (Applause.)

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Adrienne K. Elrod
Director of Strategic Communications & Surrogates
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod

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