Hillary Clinton at the 2015 U.S. Conference of Mayors

thank you all so much thank you thank you and so it's great to be here with all of you i'm looking out at the audience and see so

many familiar faces as well as those here up on the diet so i want to thank kevin for his introduction and his leadership organization

uh mayor lee thanks for having us in your beautiful city i it is for me great

senator working with uh in great measure because of that need for buttressing

our homeland security as well as other i. challenges within our cities i during the eight years i served in the senate and

it was always refreshing i come here because despite whatever was going on in congress or washington uh

with respect to partisanship a conference of mayors it was truly like an oasis in the desert uh

important it is to work with that city hall i had to try to make sure we are connected

up as partners uh to get whatever the priorities of your people

i happen to be accomplished i still pays it pays to work with you and i

am grateful to have this opportunity to come back and see you when i was senator from new york i not only worked

with the mayor of new york city of course i worked with creative and committed mayors i'm from buffalo to rochester to syracuse to albany and so many other

eager to work together to attract more high paying jobs to revive analyze downtown to

support our first responders to try to close that skills gap and i want you to be sure of

this whether you are a democrat a republican or an independent if i am president america's

mayors will always have a friend in the white house nnnnn

now as i was preparing to come here i couldn't help but think of some of those who aren't with us today i

come in you know is a dear friend to me and to many in this room and i certainly feel his loss today

our thoughts are also with our friend joe riley and the people of charleston joe is a good man and a great mayor and

his leadership has been a bright light during such a dark time no the passing i've

days has not dulled the pain or the shock of this crime indeed as we have gotten to know the

faces and names and stories of the victims the pain has only deepened not

being faithful women and men with families and passions and so

much left to do as a mother a grandmother just as a fellow human being my heart is bursting for

them for these victims and their families for a wounded community and a wounded church for