My fellow Democrats, 16 years ago, you gave me the profound honor to lead our party to victory and to lead our nation to a new era of peace and broadly shared prosperity.
Together, we prevailed in a hard campaign in which Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief.
(APPLAUSE)
Sound familiar?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
CLINTON: It didn’t work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it will not work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.
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(and the best line of the speech...)
"People the world over," Clinton said, "have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of power."
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