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Sure, Losing An Election Hurts, But I've Experienced Worse. And At An Age When Every Day Is Precious, Brooding Over What Might Have Been Is Self-defeating. In Conceding The 1996 Election, I Remarked That "tomorrow Will Be The First Time In My Life I Don't Have Anything To Do." I Was Wrong. Seventy-two Hours After Conceding The Election, I Was Swapping Wisecracks With David Letterman On His Late-night Show.

What We Dedicate Today Is Not A Memorial To War, Rather It's A Tribute To The Physical And Moral Courage That Makes Heroes Out Of Farm And City Boys And That Inspires Americans In Every Generation To Lay Down Their Lives For People They Will Never Meet, For Ideals That Make Life Itself Worth Living.

Our Intent Will Not Be To Create Gridlock. Oh, Except Maybe From Time To Time.

The Horizon Is Out There Somewhere And You Keep Chasing It, Looking For It And Working For It.

I Don't Know How Many People Run For Vice President And President And Lose Both.