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Hillary Clinton condemns ‘racist abuse’ in Portland attack – The Hill (blog)

Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonGraham: Comey should be held accountable for acting on bad intel Hillary Clinton condemns 'racist abuse' in Portland attack Clinton returns to election night convention hall to talk about her new book MORE called a racism-motivated incident in Portland on Saturday "heartbreaking."

Clinton tweeted her condolences after two men were stabbed to death by a white supremacist in Portland, Oregon, when they tried to stop the man's racist tirade.

"Heartbreaking. No one should have to endure this racist abuse," Clinton tweeted Saturday night. "No one should have to give their life to stop it."

Heartbreaking. No one should have to endure this racist abuse. No one should have to give their life to stop it.https://t.co/CpmQcHI8gi

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Police arrested 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian early Saturday morning after he allegedly stabbed three men who tried to stop him from berating two Muslim women on a Portland MAX train. Two of the men died, while a third received injuries that were not life-threatening.

"In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him and appeared to try to intervene with his behavior and some of the people that he was yelling at," Portland police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said. "They were attacked viciously."

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on Friday at sundown.

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As Clinton emerges from the woods, what will her role be? – ABC News

Forty-eight years after she gave her first commencement address at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton returns on Friday to offer another and once again, she's at a crossroads in her life.

The first time, she was 21 years old and eager to take on life's adventures, a graduating senior whose bold speech delighted her classmates, dismayed the school's president, and made it into Life magazine. The Hillary who will speak this year on Severance Green Lawn is the battle-scarred politician who came agonizingly close to becoming the first female president of the United States.

Half a year after her stunning loss to Donald Trump in November a loss that left her devastated and heartbroken, those close to her say Clinton has professed herself "ready to come out of the woods," a winking reference to the viral photo of her in the woods near her home days after the election.

But what will coming out of the woods look like? And how will Clinton, long seen as a master at redefining herself over three decades in the limelight define her role in the Trump era? Some have even speculated she might run for elected office again a possibility she hasn't flat-out denied, but has said she doesn't expect to happen. Friends say it's unlikely.

"I think she's basically closed the door on ever running again," says Melanne Verveer, Clinton's longtime friend and chief of staff from her first lady years who also worked with her at the State Department. But she adds emphatically: "She's not going to recede. You're going to continue to see her engaged on issues that she is passionate about and has played a leadership role in. She will be out there ... but not as that public candidate. So it's a new place."

After remaining largely out of public view for a few months after the election, Clinton has stepped up the pace of her public appearances. On May 15, she announced the formation of Onward Together, a political group designed to aid progressive causes and oppose the Trump agenda. Its website bears the slogan Clinton has called her new mantra: "Resist, insist, persist and enlist."

She's also working on a book of personal essays, announced with fanfare in February. And she's writing the forward for a book by her friend and Methodist pastor, the Rev. Bill Shillady, that will contain 365 of the devotionals he wrote for Clinton during the campaign, sending them by email early each morning to bolster her on the trail.

The former secretary of state is also speaking at events like this week's Children's Health Fund benefit, where she lashed out at Trump's spending plan, saying it showed an "unimaginable level of cruelty."

She's addressed gatherings for Planned Parenthood, for an LGBT group in New York, for the Society of Irish Women in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She presented awards to Colombian peacemakers at Georgetown, and made a surprise appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival to discuss saving endangered elephants from poachers in Africa.

At such events, Clinton has been treated more like a conquering heroine than the loser of an election certainly with more affection and enthusiasm than during the campaign. At the Tribeca event, surprised attendees called out, "Love you, Hillary!" At an event for the Center, an LGBT group, she received repeated standing ovations. At the Women in the World conference, host Samantha Bee introduced her as "Hillary Rodham Beyonce Clinton" and told her: "It should have been you!"

The reception was even more striking at the final performance of "The Color Purple" in January, one of her first public sightings after the election (and one of several Broadway shows she's turned up at.) The audience broke out into sustained cheers, with theatergoers leaning precariously over railings and shouting, "We love you!" At the curtain call, actors pointed to her and touched their hearts.

Of course, these events were in Clinton territory, and at organizations that strongly supported her. Still, many note she seems in loss to have touched a chord with her base particularly younger women that she hadn't before.

"There was such an expectation that she would win," says Debbie Walsh, of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, "that people never envisioned a world where the alternative was true and didn't appreciate what the world would be like. I don't want to call it buyer's remorse because I don't think these people voted for Trump, but maybe they weren't the enthusiastic supporters that they could have been."

Shillady, the Methodist pastor, says that when he had Christmas Eve dinner with Clinton, the crowd in the restaurant stood up and cheered. "People came over to the table in tears," he says. "It's almost as if people were feeling like they personally had let her down."

"I think she finds comfort in it, and it's energized her to come out of the woods," he adds. "She's coming out to speak more fully and with more freedom. She doesn't have to be politically correct."

Of course, not all the feedback has been flattering not with one of the most polarizing figures in American political history.

"I never thought she was a great candidate," Joe Biden was recently quoted as saying. "I thought I was a great candidate."

And former Clinton campaign officials took to Twitter to push back against a portrayal, in the book "Shattered" by journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, of a dysfunctional campaign beset by infighting and an out-of-touch candidate.

Clinton also got flak for saying, in an interview with Christiane Amanpour, that she'd be president now if not for the late-October announcement by FBI head James Comey that the agency was again reviewing her emails. Critics among them David Axelrod, chief strategist for the Barack Obama campaigns suggested she wasn't taking enough responsibility for her loss.

Rutgers' Walsh feels that Clinton could play a crucial role in getting a new generation of women, who are responding to her now as they perhaps never did, to enter politics.

"Hillary Clinton has put gender front and center more than anyone," Walsh says. "She's the one who can say, 'I pushed the boundaries, and now we need you.'"

Not everyone feels that Clinton needs to do anything at all.

"Hillary Clinton should be free to do anything she wants," feminist author and leader Gloria Steinem wrote in an email, including "walking in the woods with her grandchildren."

"I think she owes us nothing and we owe her everything especially gratitude, respect and the right to be free."

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In commencement address, Hillary Clinton remembers fallout from Nixon, makes subtle jab at President Trump – Los Angeles Times

Hillary Clinton delivered a subtle dig at President Trump on Friday, offering some parallels between his presidency and that of former President Nixon.

While delivering a commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, a private womens liberal arts school in Massachusetts, Clinton, without naming Trump, recalled how many youngpeople in the 1970s reacted to Nixon's reelection and later battles with the Justice Department.

We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice," she said, pausing to note she was referring to Nixon.

Actually, Nixon was not impeached, though many in Congress, including members of his own party, called for it. Clintonsaid Nixon's resignation came after he fired the person heading the investigation into him at the Department of Justice.

In 1973, Nixon ordered Justice Department officials to fire a special prosecutor who was looking into taped conversations recorded in the Oval Office as part of the Watergate investigation. A year later, in August 1974, Nixon resigned.

Some political observers mostly Democrats -- have compared Trumps recent firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, who was overseeing an investigation of possible collusion between Russians and Trumps campaign, to Nixons actions. Last week, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) called for Trump to be impeached.

Clinton, who has made few public appearances since Trump defeated her in last years presidential election, also assailed the Republicans new budget proposal.

She called the budget, which proposescuts to education and Medicaid, "an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us the youngest, the oldest, the poorestand hard-working people who need a little help to gain or hang on to a decent, middle-class life."

In a statement, the Republican National Committee said Clinton was lashing out after her election loss.

Clinton graduated from Wellesley in 1969 and last delivered a commencement address at the school in 1992.

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Here’s What Hillary Clinton Thought About James Comey’s Firing – HuffPost

A new profile of Secretary of StateHillary Clintonpublished Friday reveals her initial reaction to President Donald Trumps firing of FBI Director James Comey earlier this month.

The profile, written by New York Magazines Rebecca Traister, contains the first major interview the 2016 Democratic nominee has given since her narrow loss to Trump in November.

I am less surprised than I am worried, Clinton said of Comeys firing. Not that he shouldnt have been disciplined. And certainly the Trump campaign relished everything that was done to me in July and then particularly in October.

Having said that, I think whats going on now is an effort to derail and bury the Russia inquiry, and I think thats terrible for our country, she added.

She also said she hopes this abrupt and distressing action will raise enough questions in the minds of Republicans for them to conclude that it is worthy of careful attention, because left unchecked this will not just bite Democrats, or me; this will undermine our electoral system.

Traister interviewed Clinton just one day after Trump fired Comey. Since then, multiple revelations have emerged during the FBIs ongoing investigation into whether Trump associates actively colluded with Russian officials to sway the outcome of the election, including that Trump allegedly asked Comey to end the probe.

Clinton referenced those revelations during a commencement speech she gave at her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday. During her remarks, she spoke about the mood on campus when Richard Nixon was elected president, in an apparent jab at Trump.

We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice, after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice, she said.

While many of her former staffers had a lot to say about Comeys firing, Clinton herself has largely stayed out of the ensuing debate.

Under Comeys leadership, the FBI investigated Clintons use of a private email server during her tenure at the State Department. In July, Comey announced he would not recommend charges against Clinton. But in October, less than two weeks before the election, Comey sent a letter informing Congress that the bureau was considering reopening its investigation after finding additional emails.

The FBI was eventually able to review those emails before the election and found that they didnt change Comeys previous recommendation against charges. However, many, including Clinton herself, felt Comeys letter was partially to blame for her narrow loss to Trump.

In a memo explaining why he recommended terminating Comey,Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the handling of Clintons emails had caused substantial damage to the FBIs reputation and credibility.

I cannot defend the Directors handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clintons emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken, Rosenstein wrote. Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.

However, Trump later told NBCs Lester Holt that the decision to fire Comey was his own, and that he considered this Russia thing while assessing Comeys future at the Justice Department.

Comey addressed his handling of the Clinton investigation during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearingon May 3.

It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldnt change the decision, he testified.

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. on May 26. (Reuters)

It's been 200 days, or 239,040 minutes, or 17,280,000 seconds since the presidential election. President Trump still talks a lot about it. And on Friday, Hillary Clinton may as well have been transported on a time machine back to Nov. 7, too.

Her 30-minute commencement speech Friday at Wellesley College was filled with direct burns at her 2016 opponent. Here's the whole speech, annotated with what we found eyebrow-raising. Click the highlighted words to see the annotations.

Thanks!

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for that warm welcome. I am so grateful to be here back at Wellesley, especially for President Johnsons very first Commencement, and to thank her, the trustees, families and friends, faculty, staff, and guests for understanding and perpetuating the importance of this college: what it stands for, what it has meant, and what it will do in the years ahead. And most importantly, its wonderful to be here with another green class to say, congratulations to the class of 2017!

Now I have some of my dear friends here from my class, a green class of 1969. And I assume, or at least you can tell me later, unlike us, you actually have a class cheer. 1969 Wellesley. [shakes head] Yet another year with no class cheer. But it is such an honor to join with the College and all who have come to celebrate this day with you, and to recognize the amazing futures that await you.

You know, four years ago, maybe a little more or a little less for some of you I told the trustees I was sitting with, after hearing Talas speech, I didnt think I could get through it. So well blame allergy instead of emotion. But you know, you arrived at this campus. You arrived from all over. You joined students from 49 states and 58 countries. Now maybe you felt like you belonged right away. I doubt it. But maybe some of you did and you never wavered.

[Hillary Clintons breakout moment at Wellesley College]

But maybe you changed your major three times and your hairstyle twice that many. Or maybe, after your first month of classes, you made a frantic collect call (ask your parents what that was) back to Illinois to tell your mother and father you werent smart enough to be here. My father said, Okay, come home. My mother said, You have to stick it out. Thats what happened to me.

But whatever your path, you dreamed big. You probably, in true Wellesley fashion, planned your academic and extracurricular schedule right down to the minute. So this day that youve been waiting forand maybe dreading a littleis finally here.

As President Johnson said, I spoke at my Commencement 48 years ago. I came back 25 years ago to speak at another Commencement. I couldnt think of any place Id rather be this year than right here.

Now, you may have heard that things didnt exactly go the way I planned. But you know what? Im doing okay. Ive gotten to spend time with my family, especially my amazing grandchildren. I was going to give the entire Commencement speech about them but was talked out of it. Long walks in the woods, organizing my closets, right? I wont lie. Chardonnay helped a little, too.

But heres what helped most of all: remembering who I am, where I come from, and what I believe. And that is what Wellesley means to me. This College gave me so much. It launched me on a life of service and provided friends that I still treasure. So wherever your life takes you, I hope that Wellesley serves as that kind of touchstone for you.

Now if any of you are nervous about what youll be walking into when you leave the campus, I know that feeling. I do remember my Commencement. Id been asked by my classmates to speak. I stayed up all night with my friends, the third floor of Davis, writing and editing my speech. By the time we gathered in the Academic Quad, I was exhausted. My hair was a wreck. The mortarboard made it worse. But I was pretty oblivious to all of that, because what my friends had asked me to do was to talk about our worries, and about our ability and responsibility to do something about them.

We didnt trust government, authority figures, or really anyone over 30, in large part thanks to years of heavy casualties and dishonest official statements about Vietnam, and deep differences over civil rights and poverty here at home. We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

And by the way, we were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice.

Speaking at Wellesley College's commencement on May 26, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton alluded to similarities between President Trump and former president Richard Nixon. (Reuters)

But heres what I want you to know. We got through that tumultuous time, and once again began to thrive as our society changed laws and opened the circle of opportunity and rights wider and wider for more Americans. We revved up the engines of innovation and imagination. We turned back a tide of intolerance and embraced inclusion. The we who did those things were more than those in power who wanted to change course. It was millions of ordinary citizens, especially young people, who voted, marched, and organized.

Now, of course today has some important differences. The advance of technology, the impact of the internet, our fragmented media landscape, make it easier than ever to splinter ourselves into echo chambers. We can shut out contrary voices, avoid ever questioning our basic assumptions. Extreme views are given powerful microphones. Leaders willing to exploit fear and skepticism have tools at their disposal that were unimaginable when I graduated.

And heres what that means to you, the Class of 2017. You are graduating at a time when there is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason. Just log on to social media for ten seconds. It will hit you right in the face. People denying science, concocting elaborate, hurtful conspiracy theories about child-abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors, drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants, Muslims, minorities, the poor, turning neighbor against neighbor and sowing division at a time when we desperately need unity. Some are even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds, and then defending themselves by talking about quote-unquote alternative facts. But this is serious business. Look at the budget that was just proposed in Washington. It is an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us, the youngest, the oldest, the poorest, and hard-working people who need a little help to gain or hang on to a decent middle class life. It grossly under-funds public education, mental health, and efforts even to combat the opioid epidemic. And in reversing our commitment to fight climate change, it puts the future of our nation and our world at risk. And to top it off, it is shrouded in a trillion-dollar mathematical lie. Lets call it what it is. Its a con. They dont even try to hide it.

[Heres what the pins that Sheriff Clarke wears actually mean]

Why does all this matter? It matters because if our leaders lie about the problems we face, well never solve them. It matters because it undermines confidence in government as a whole, which in turn breeds more cynicism and anger. But it also matters because our country, like this College, was founded on the principles of the Enlightenmentin particular, the belief that people, you and I, possess the capacity for reason and critical thinking, and that free and open debate is the lifeblood of a democracy. Not only Wellesley, but the entire American university systemthe envy of the worldwas founded on those fundamental ideals. We should not abandon them; we should revere them. We should aspire to them every single day, in everything we do.

And theres something else. As the history majors among you here today know all too well, when people in power invent their own facts, and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society. That is not hyperbole. It is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done. They attempt to control realitynot just our laws and rights and our budgets, but our thoughts and beliefs.

Right now, some of you might wonder, well why am I telling you all this? You dont own a cable news network. You dont control the Facebook algorithm. You arent a member of Congressyet. Because I believe with all my heart that the future of Americaindeed, the future of the worlddepends on brave, thoughtful people like you insisting on truth and integrity, right now, every day. You didnt create these circumstances, but you have the power to change them.

Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright, first President of the Czech Republic, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it, he said: The moment someone breaks through in one place, when one person cries out, The emperor is naked!when a single person breaks the rules of the game, thus exposing it as a gameeverything suddenly appears in another light. What hes telling us is if you feel powerless, dont. Dont let anyone tell you your voice doesnt matter. In the years to come, there will be trolls galoreonline and in personeager to tell you that you dont have anything worthwhile to say or anything meaningful to contribute. They may even call you a Nasty Woman. Some may take a slightly more sophisticated approach and say your elite education means you are out of touch with real people. In other words, sit down and shut up. Now, in my experience, thats the last thing you should ever tell a Wellesley graduate.

And heres the good news. What youve learned these four years is precisely what you need to face the challenges of this moment. First, you learned critical thinking. I can still remember the professors who challenged me to make decisions with good information, rigorous reasoning, real deliberation. I know we didnt have much of that in this past election, but we have to get back to it. After all, in the words of my predecessor in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

And your education gives you more than knowledge. It gives you the power to keep learning and apply what you know to improve your life and the lives of others. Because you are beginning your careers with one of the best educations in the world, I think you do have a special responsibility to give others the chance to learn and think for themselves, and to learn from them, so that we can have the kind of open, fact-based debate necessary for our democracy to survive and flourish. And along the way, you may be convinced to change your mind from time to time. You know what? Thats okay. Take it from me, the former president of the Wellesley College Young Republicans.

[Hillary Clinton didnt give her concession speech on election night. Now we see one reason why.]

Second, you learned the value of an open mind and an open society. At their best, our colleges and universities are free market places of ideas, embracing a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. Thats our country at our best, too. An open, inclusive, diverse society is the opposite of and antidote to a closed society, where there is only one right way to think, believe, and act. Here at Wellesley, youve worked hard to turn this ideal into a reality. Youve spoken out against racism and sexism and xenophobia and discrimination of all kinds. And youve shared your own stories. And at times thats taken courage. But the only way our society will ever become a place where everyone truly belongs is if all of us speak openly and honestly about who we are, what were going through. So keep doing that.

And let me add that your learning, listening, and serving should include people who dont agree with you politically. A lot of our fellow Americans have lost faith in the existing economic, social, political, and cultural conditions of our country.

Many feel left behind, left out, looked down on. Their anger and alienation has proved a fertile ground for false promises and false information. Their economic problems and cultural anxiety must be addressed, or they will continue to sign up to be foot-soldiers in the ongoing conflict between us and them.

The opportunity is here. Millions of people will be hurt by the policies, including this budget that is being considered. And many of these same people dont want DREAMers deported their health care taken away. Many dont want to retreat on civil rights, womens rights, and LGBT rights. So if your outreach is rebuffed, keep trying. Do the right thing anyway. Were going to share this future. Better to do so with open hearts and outstretched hands than closed minds and clenched fists.

And third, here at Wellesley, you learned the power of service. Because while free and fierce conversations in classrooms, dorm rooms, dining halls are vital, they only get us so far. You have to turn those ideas and those values into action. This College has always understood that. The motto which youve heard twice already, Not to be ministered unto, but to minister is as true today as it ever was. If you think about it, its kind of an old-fashioned rendering of President Kennedys great statement, Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Not long ago, I got a note from a group of Wellesley alums and students who had supported me in the campaign. They worked their hearts out. And, like a lot of people, theyre wondering: What do we do now?

Well I think there's only one answer, to keep going. Dont be afraid of your ambition, of your dreams, or even your anger those are powerful forces. But harness them to make a difference in the world. Stand up for truth and reason. Do it in private in conversations with your family, your friends, your workplace, your neighborhoods. And do it in publicin Medium posts, on social media, or grab a sign and head to a protest. Make defending truth and a free society a core value of your life every single day.

So wherever you wind up next, the minute you get there, register to vote, and while youre at it, encourage others to do so. And then vote in every election, not just the presidential ones. Bring others to vote. Fight every effort to restrict the right of law-abiding citizens to be able to vote as well. Get involved in a cause that matters to you. Pick one, start somewhere. You dont have to do everything, but dont sit on the sidelines. And you know what? Get to know your elected officials. If you disagree with them, ask questions. Challenge them. Better yet, run for office yourself some day. Now thats not for everybody, I know. And its certainly not for the faint of heart. But its worth it. As they say in one of my favorite movies, A League of Their Own, Its supposed to be hard. The hard is what makes it great.

As Tala said, the day after the election, I did want to speak particularly to women and girls everywhere, especially young women, because you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world. Not just your future, but our future depends on you believing that. We need your smarts, of course, but we also need your compassion, your curiosity, your stubbornness. And remember, you are even more powerful because you have so many people supporting you, cheering you on, standing with you through good times and bad.

Our culture often celebrates people who appear to go it alone. But the truth is, thats not how life works. Anything worth doing takes a village. And you build that village by investing love and time into your relationships. And in those moments for whatever reason when it might feel bleak, think back to this place where women have the freedom to take risks, make mistakes, even fail in front of each other. Channel the strength of your Wellesley classmates and experiences. I guarantee you itll help you stand up a little straighter, feel a little braver, knowing that the things you joked about and even took for granted can be your secret weapons for your future.

One of the things that gave me the most hope and joy after the election, when I really needed it, was meeting so many young people who told me that my defeat had not defeated them. And Im going to devote a lot of my future to helping you make your mark in the world. I created a new organization called Onward Together to help recruit and train future leaders, and organize for real and lasting change. The work never ends.

When I graduated and made that speech, I did say, and some of you might have pictures from that day with this on it, The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. That was true then. Its truer today. I never could have imagined where I would have been 48 years latercertainly never that I would have run for the Presidency of the United States or seen progress for women in all walks of life over the course of my lifetime. And yes, put millions of more cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

Because just in those years, doors that once seemed sealed to women are now opened. Theyre ready for you to walk through or charge through, to advance the struggle for equality, justice, and freedom.

So whatever your dreams are today, dream even bigger. Wherever you have set your sights, raise them even higher. And above all, keep going. Dont do it because I asked you so. Do it for yourselves. Do it for truth and reason. Do it because the history of Wellesley and this country tells us its often during the darkest times when you can do the most good. Double down on your passions. Be bold. Try, fail, try again, and lean on each other. Hold on to your values. Never give up on those dreams.

Im very optimistic about the future, because I think, after weve tried a lot of other things, we get back to the business of America. I believe in you. With all my heart, I want you to believe in yourselves. So go forth, be great. But first, graduate.

Congratulations!

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. on May 26. (Reuters)

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