But… but… but… she’s Hillary Clinton!

April 14, 2015 MONTICELLO, Iowa=—Hillary Clinton may have been speaking to just 22 people here at her Iowa kickoff event, but the now-official 2016 candidate was looking far beyond the people in the room when she outlined, in the clearest terms yet, the rationale for her campaign.

“A lot of people in the last few days have asked me, ‘Why do you want to do this?’ and ‘What motivates you?'” Clinton said. “And I’ve thought a lot about it, and I guess the short answer is, I’ve been fighting for children and families my entire life. … I want to be the champion who goes to bat for Americans.”

Clinton named four areas of focus for her campaign: building the economy up “tomorrow, not yesterday,” strengthening families and communities, fixing the country’s “dysfunctional political system”—including getting “unaccounted” money out of the system—and protecting Americans from external threats.

She repeated the themes of her announcement video, saying again that “the deck is stacked in favor of those already at the top” and noting that economic recovery still isn’t being felt by many Americans.

“When I look at where we are as a country, I am just so absolutely convinced that there isn’t anybody anywhere who can out-compete us, who has better values, who can do more to provide more people the chance to live up to their own God-given potential,” she said at the community college here. “But we can’t take that for granted.”