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[Begin new audio segment. Crowd noise and applause] Joe Biden: Thank you very much. Joe Conaway. I want you all to know that there are 40 of us on here, on this flatbed truck that had separate ideas. But we said, what can we give Bill Frank? [Laughter]

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Bill, I wish you were here to hear it all. I'd like to thank all of you for participating. Thank my opponent, John Burris for his gracious comments. I once indicated that I think this must be

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the most brutal ceremony thought up by rational man. [Laughter] It is a difficult thing for those who came out a few votes short, to spend

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the hours here basking both in the glory of your presence and the fact that

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the opponent's that they ran against won. It's a very difficult thing and I think we owe all of those people who didn't make

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it and showed here today a round of applause because it takes a lot. [Applause] Governor du Pont, pretty soon I'll be able to call him Pete again, [Laughter]

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Mike Castle, who I'll soon have to call Governor. This event is evidence of the fact that America is truly the only country ever founded for the simple reason that we had

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a good idea. We bury the hatchet here today And in burying the hatchet, it's not only a symbol that the fighting is over, but now we must begin. We have a significant opportunity,

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Democrats and Republicans alike, to begin, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "to build the world anew." That's what we as American's can do but only only as Democrats and

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Republicans together can that be done. And I wish to participate in that. Thank you very much. [Applause] [End current audio segment] [Begin new audio segment. Applause] Elise du Pont: I want to say thank you to all of you. And to the

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state of Delaware for the honor and the privilege of running for Congress. And I want to especially

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congratulate my opponent, Tom Carper. And I want to share something with you now that means a great deal to me, something that I carry with me all the time.

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It's a quote from Theodore Roosevelt. "It's not the critic who counts or how the strong man stumbled and fell and whether the doer

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of these could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who's actually in the arena where fame is marred by dust and sweat and blood

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who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again and who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, and who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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And if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that he will never be with those cold and timid souls, who never know

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either victory or defeat." I thank you. [Applause] [End current audio segment] [Begin new audio segment] [Applause] Tom Carper: Thank you. I just want to begin my remarks today by thanking each and everyone of you here.

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I particularly want to thank 58% of you. [Laughter] All of you who joined Glenda Scott, my Sussex County coordinator in what has

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really been a true grassroots campaign. I want to thank you as well. And for those of you here in Sussex County and those of you from Kent County and New Castle.

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who've extended to me over the last eight years, many kindnesses, I want to say thank you. And for those of you who have

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taken to your hearts my mom and my dad who are here with me today from Florida. I just wanted to say especially

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thank you for all of them. [Applause] My parents are retired now. They celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary Sunday. They could not have had a better

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two day old present than you gave them Tuesday. Thank you. [Applause] Throughout this campaign, I've said that there are two good

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people running for the office of US Representative from the state of Delaware. On election night, Elise du Pont reinforced that belief,

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when she called me on the phone and with great dignity and graciousness, conceded the victory to me and congratulated me

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on this win. I want to say ladies and gentlemen, this is the fifth time I been her on Return Day as a winner. That was the first time anyone

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called me on election night to say "nice going" and I appreciate that. [Applause] Now, I realized that we politicians aren't supposed to

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say nice words about people in the opposing party, but this may be my last chance to have a shot at Pete du Pont. [Laughter]

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As we were riding through the parade in that horse drawn carriage, I so badly wanted to kid him and say, that I had saved him from a

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future as being the president of the congressional wives club so that he could go on to become the president

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perhaps of something greater than that. [Applause] Pete, I think that in you're 16 years of service to the state you have done us all a great service. You have, I think,

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set a standard against which future governors will be judged. And as a Democrat and a Delawarean, I just want to take

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this opportunity to salute you and thank you for your service to our state. [Applause] Like many of you, ladies and gentlemen,

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I have a vision of the future. My vision of the future is winter 1988, the snows of New Hampshire, America's Joe Biden. [Applause]

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Along with our Pete du Pont, wading through the snows of New Hampshire arm in arm, each of them with a little "Small Wonder" button [Laughter] on a quest for the presidency

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I don't know, we'll see. [Applause] Let me, let me quickly conclude before [End current audio segment]