11.   After the closest approximation the nation has ever had to a national primary, Gore and Bush both made a victory speeches looking to the general election campaign.

12.   All of them were given roundtrip tickets for the evening and a room at the Sheraton Hotel where Kerry would later give his victory speech.

13.   Bush called on Laney to introduce him for his nationally-televised victory speech in the Texas House.

14.   But at the same time, this is not a victory speech.

15.   But his spirited victory speech was tempered by the lack of finality.

16.   But Mason said that a cover-up was finally being exposed, and he gave what almost sounded like a victory speech outside the courthouse.

17.   But while Bush is not working on a victory speech for a year from tonight, there is optimism in Bushland.

18.   Clinton placed calls to radio stations in Arkansas, Iowa and Pennsylvania, interrupting his campaign work only to help Mrs. Clinton draft her victory speech.

19.   Clinton, in a victory speech late yesterday, seized the returns as a mandate for his policies.

20.   Clinton, on the other hand, did not mention the media in his victory speech.