Senator Hillary Clinton has been standing up for the values and causes that matter to America's families for 35 years.

An advocate for children and seniors; an attorney twice voted one of the most influential in America; one of only two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee investigation of Watergate; a First Lady of Arkansas who helped reform the public schools and expand rural health care; a bestselling author.

As our nation's First Lady, she helped transform that role, becoming a champion for health care and families at home and a champion for women's rights and human rights around the world. We will never forget Hillary Clinton standing up to the government of China and saying to the world, "Women's rights are human rights."

Hillary became the first First Lady to seek elected office and the first woman to be elected state-wide in New York at the top of the ticket. In 2006, she was re-elected with a landslide 67 percent of the vote.

Senator Clinton has been a steadfast advocate for middle-class families, working to help create jobs, expand children's health care, and protect Social Security from privatization. As the Senator representing New York after 9/11, Hillary has fought to strengthen our homeland security and to improve our communications and intelligence operations. As the first New Yorker ever named to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has been a tough critic of the war in Iraq and a fierce advocate for giving our troops what they need and deserve, like body armor, health benefits, and better treatment for military families.

Senator Clinton has a 35-year record of fighting for change, and a track record of working across the aisle to get results.