Transcript: Clinton's Victory Speech
Nov. 7 -- HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you.
AUDIENCE: Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you so much. I mean, wow, this isamazing. Thank you all. Thank you.
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You know, we started this great effort on a sunny July morning inPinder’s Corner on Pat and Liz Moynihan’s beautiful farm. And 62 counties, 16 months, three debates, two opponents and six blackpantsuits later, because of you, here we are.
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You came out and said that issues and ideals matter; jobs matter,down state and upstate; health care matters; education matters; theenvironment matters; Social Security matters; a woman’s right tochoose matters.
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It all matters. And I just want to say from the bottom of myheart: Thank you, New York.
Thank you for opening up your minds and your hearts,for seeing the possibility of what we could do together for ourchildren and for our future here in this state and in our nation. Iam profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to serveyou.
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I will do everything I can to be worthy of your faith and trust,and to honor the powerful example of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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I would like all of you and the countless New Yorkers andAmericans watching to join me in honoring him for his incredible half-century of service to New York and our nation.
Senator Moynihan, on behalf of New York and America, thank you.
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And I thank Chuck Schumer for his generous support andfriendship.
He has been and will be a great champion for the peopleof New York. And I very much look forward to fighting by his side inthe United States Senate.
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I want to thank both of my opponents, Mayor Giuliani andCongressman Lazio.
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Congressman Lazio and I just spoke. I congratulate him on ahard-fought race, and I thank him for his service to the people of NewYork and Long Island. And I wish him, Pat and their two beautifuldaughters well.
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