i would always be grateful to the creative and talented and dedicated men and women and our headquarter at brooklyn and across the country. [ applause ] u poured your hearts into this campaign. for some of you who are veterans, it was a campaign after you had done other campaigns. some of you, it was your first campaign. i want each of you to know that you were the best campaign anybody could have ever expected or wanted. [ applause ] to the millions of volunteers, community leaders, activists and union organizers, who knocked on doors and talked to neighbors