is organizing millions of women to get off the sidelines, my friend, my colleague, senator kiersten gillibrandlause] gillibrand: my wonderful friend and colleague, gabby giffords, thank you. i am honored to be here with a room full of amazing speakers and all of these women standing behind me. it has been an amazing opportunity to be in this campaign for hillary clinton. it is largely because i have been so lucky to have mentors and role models in my life who also happen to be strong and brilliant women. [applause] gillibrand: my grandmother taught me that women's voices matters and my mother taught me to own my own ambition and never give up, but my greatest mentor, the strongest and best mentor has been hillary bottom clinton. clinton.y rodham [applause] senator gillibrand: i was a said,lawyer when she women rights are human rights and human rights by women's rights. it was a life-changing moment for me and i knew at that moment i had to follow hillary and get off the sidelines, and before long, hillary was speaking to a group of women and she looked out into a room like this and she said, d

and finally, i want to thank him to really salute my friend and senator from new york kiersten gillibrand, who has taken on some very difficult issues in the senate for all of us. for all of us, but particularly for women. she has been on the front lines day after day making change. she knows you do not get up and make a speech and everything changes. she knows you have got to work every single hour of every single day. like me, she is a progressive who likes to get things done for the people she represents. now, it is very exciting to be with all of you on the evening of the new york primary. i am so grateful for the chance i had to represent this state for eight years. the people of new york took a chance on me in 2000. you sent me to the senate. we worked together. we dealt with the horror of 9/11 together. we worked together on inner-city areas and upstate rural areas and it was the greatest honor of my life to represent you in the senate and i want you to know that new york had my back and i always tried to have your back and i will again if i am fortunate enough to be elected your p

great our upstate person that came from the east, wonderful catholic district region, senator kiersten gillibrandmko. give it up for paul. i am so happy and honored to be here today. i grew up just a stones throw from here in my whole life since i was a little girl in me, i have been lucky to have somebody role models and mentors who happen to be strong and brilliant women. i want to tell you about three of those mentors that were most important to me. the first one was my grandmother. my grandmother was a secretary in our state legislature. she didn't have a college degree. she didn't have a fancy title. but she was never afraid to raise her voice about the issues that mattered to her and to this community. she also wanted to make her community a better place. she learned that if she wanted to make it better while her voice might be important, the voice of many women was even more important. she and other women created an organization with all of the women in the capital region joining her to elect leaders that shared their values. they learned how to run campaigns. they knocked on doors. they m

is organizing millions of women to get off the sidelines, my friend, my colleague, senator kiersten gillibrandor gillibrand: my wonderful friend and colleague, gabby giffords, thank you. i am honored to be here with a room full of amazing speakers and all of these women standing behind me. it has been an amazing opportunity to be in this campaign for hillary clinton. it is largely because i have been so lucky to have mentors and role models in my life who also happen to be strong and brilliant women. [applause] senator gillibrand: my grandmother taught me that women's voices matters and my mother taught me to own my own ambition and never give up, but my greatest mentor, the strongest and best mentor has been hillary rodham clinton. [applause] senator gillibrand: i was a young lawyer when she said, that famous speech in beijing when she declared to the world once and for all that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's right. it was a life-changing moment for me and i knew at that moment i had to follow hillary and get off the sidelines, and before long, hillary was speaki