Thank you, team!

Though it hasn’t been easy, we have made history tonight.

The people of this great state have asked us to continue the progress we have made in the past four years.

Tonight, I renew my promise to you — whether you voted for me or not — to work every single day of the next four years to keep moving us forward.

Forward with renewed optimism to ensure greater opportunities for all 9.3 million who call this great state home.

Forward with a deeper sense of fairness and a commitment to equity.

Forward by rejecting the divisiveness and chaos that permeate too much of our politics.

In short, forward by living up to our Jersey values.

The fact is that our best days aren’t behind us. They are before us, along this new path we are blazing.

We’re leading with compassion and empathy, not anger and despair.

New Jersey now stands as a symbol to the rest of the country that change is possible.

What we can take from tonight is knowing that many of our friends and neighbors, like us, do not want to go backward.

What we take from tonight is the satisfaction in all we’ve already accomplished and the desire to accomplish more.

To everyone who made tonight possible, Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, Chairman LeRoy Jones and Vice-Chair Peg Schaffer, our campaign team led by Mollie Binotto and Jackie Burns, the thousands of volunteers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, our friends in organized labor who stood tall in support of us and our mission, and supporters like you who volunteered and chipped in to support our campaign — thank you all so much!

Most importantly, I thank my family, and I especially thank the chair of our campaign, the finance chair of our campaign, and New Jersey’s all-time greatest First Lady, Tammy Murphy.

And the four most important things that Tammy and I have ever accomplished — Josh, Emma, Charlie, and Sam Murphy. We love you all so much.

Together, we are moving forward.

May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless the great State of New Jersey and the United States of America.

Again, thank you.

— Phil