Bill Clinton: “Hello! Thank you. Thank you so much. Let me say that it is great to be in Chicago. I want to say to the mayor and to…”

“Hello! Thank you. Thank you so much. Let me say that it is great to be in Chicago. I want to say to the mayor and to Maggie and to all of the Daley family and to the Members of Congress who are here and all those who are on the committee and all the people who have worked so hard to make our Democratic Party feel at home in Chicago, this convention has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. We thank you, Chicago; you have been wonderful. You have been wonderful. While you've been here having a good time with all my family, I have been on a train. We've been on a train--Hillary and Chelsea and I went to West Virginia on Sunday, and then Hillary came here to be with you. And Chelsea stayed with me another day or so, and we went to Kentucky and to Ohio and to Michigan. Last night we had--after Hillary spoke at the convention last night--and I thought she did a great job--last night we had over 20,000 people at Michigan State University in East Lansing to meet our train. And then after the convention last night I called Governor Bayh from Indiana, and I said--I said two things. I said, one, ``I liked your speech, and thank you for giving it,'' and I said, ``but you know I just was in East Lansing, and we had over 20,000 people there.'' So when we got to Indiana today, we had 30,000 people in Indiana. [Laughter] It's been a wonderful, wonderful trip. I took that trip for two reasons.…”