has traveled all across this nation with an extraordinary band of brothers, max cleveland -- max cleland[cheers and applause] to all of those in public life who took risks, joined this campaign early, hung in when it was tough, and stayed with us today, into all those who joined recently, this is not a campaign that will measure who and when. it is a campaign that will measure what we have to achieve together over the course of these next months, and i -- i want to thank, standing behind me, the greatest campaign staff in america, the greatest volunteers, many of whom -- [cheers and applause] audience, chanting: kerry! kerry! kerry! kerry! senator kerry: and i want to thank the many -- and there are many -- you have come over from other campaigns, who have become part of this great effort. we are grateful to all of them. and i particularly want to say thank you to the people of iowa and new hampshire, who gave me a hearing when no one thought we had a chance and they sent us on our way, and i thank them. and to all of those who have been fighting in our ranks all along the way, all of th