-Caveat Lector- Who is this guy trying to fool? Very interesting... commentary on his behalf. Did Hillary write this as a campaign speech in the Limo on the way? LOL ;-) See this article at: http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WASH/clinton.html >> Remarks by President Clinton at DNC Dinner Aug. 29 (1/2) To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks by President Clinton at a DNC dinner Aug. 29 (1/2): Private Residence Bridgehampton, New York 10:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. (Laughter.) I must say, I thought Hillary was going to say, if you think it's windy now, wait until Bill gets up to talk. (Laughter.) I feel badly about this wind. It came up about the time I was explaining the finer points of voodoo around our table -- (laughter) -- and the conviction that Haitians and others have that the spirits of light and darkness are more or less in equal balance and they manifest themselves in all kinds of physical ways. And all of a sudden the lights started moving and -- (laughter) -- so we'll just have to hope the good guys win tonight. Let me just say first to Craig and Jane I'm very, very grateful to be in their home here -- I've also been in their home in New York City. Thank you, Brian; thank you, Robert. They're quite wonderful people -- among other things, when I came to see them in New York they provided me, since I had a little down time, with a tenor saxophone and so I played a tune for them. So I got here tonight and the horn was here again. But I didn't put them through it again. (Laughter.) But it was very touching and I thank you for that. I also want to thank all of those who are here. Jon, thank you; and, Richie, for entertaining. Jon Bon Jovi has been very good to me, he has played for me a number of times over these last six and a half years and I thought they were terrific tonight and I thank them for being here. (Applause.) I want to thank the people who prepared the wonderful dinner and all those who served it and all the volunteers who have been part of this tonight. And I would like to just make a couple of brief points. Somebody will ask you tomorrow why you came here tonight. And I wonder what you will say: I wanted to see their house, it looked kind of interesting. (Laughter.) I wanted to hear the music. I hear the food was going to be great. The restaurant was closed tonight. I'd just like to offer a few things that I hope you'll think about. First of all, New York has been very, very good to me and to Hillary, to Al and Tipper Gore, to our whole administration. We had a wonderful convention here in '92. I had a very interesting, eventful primary here in '92 -- but it came out okay. And then the state voted for us big in '92 and then, breathtakingly in '96 and I'm very grateful. But in 1992, I asked the country and I asked the people of this state to take a chance on me, on my family, my Vice President, my administration and on a whole new direction for the country. I saw a survey the other day which said that things had been going so well in our country for so many years now, nobody could -- people have no memory of what it was like in '91 and '92. They've forgotten entirely. But the economy was in the tank, and the country was divided, and the social problems were worsening. And we had a lot of challenges around the world that weren't being addressed. And, you know, I lived a long way from Washington, D.C., but it seemed to me that we were working on the wrong things, and not working on the right things. And I asked the American people to give me a chance -- to create a country in which there was opportunity for all who were responsible; in which we could build a community of all Americans; in which we could be a force for peace and freedom and justice around the world. And so you took a chance. The first thing I hope you'll say -- and one of you said this to me tonight -- when you go home and they ask you why you came, is that it was a good chance to take and it worked out all right; that we've got the longest peacetime expansion in history, and the lowest crime rate in 26 years, and the lowest welfare rolls in 32 years, and the lowest minority unemployment ever recorded, and the highest homeownership in history; that our country has been a force for peace and freedom, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East to the Balkans; that we have tried to include all Americans in our future. The second thing I hope you'll say -- because, as Joe Andrew said earlier, politics is always about tomorrow -- is that you think we're right about the things we're talking about for today and tomorrow. You know, I'm not running for anything anymore. Joe Andrew used to have a great line in his speeches: Bill Clinton doesn't have to be here, he's not running for anything anymore. That's where Hillary started running for something, now I do have to be here -- (laughter) -- in a different role. (Applause.) But I believe this anyway and I want you to think about this. Once in a lifetime -- once in a lifetime -- if you get real lucky, maybe twice -- a country, like a person, has a moment that is either seized or squandered. You may have a lot of wonderful moments, but some will be greater than others. Mr. DeNiro has made a lot of great movies, but some were greater than others. Steven Spielberg and Kate and I, we were talking with Hillary and Chelsea on the way over about the greatest moments of his movie career. Countries are like that, just like in your personal life. A time like this comes along once in a lifetime, where we went from having -- we quadrupled our debt in 12 years, and now we've got the biggest surplus we ever had. And we project for 15 years or more we'll have it. Oh, there will be ups and downs in the economy but, on average, it will be there. Now, what are we going to do with it? Our friends in the other party, they say that all that's not attributable to Social Security taxes, we ought to give it back to you in a tax cut. And that's very popular, especially in this crowd. Some of you will say you ought to have your head examined, because every one of you should be over there with them tonight. We say we ought to face the challenges facing our children. And I'll just give you three real quick: the aging of America. There will be twice as many people over 65 in 2030 as there are now. I hope to be one of them, so do most of you. If we don't save Social Security and Medicare and do it in a way so that the children of the baby boomers don't have to support them, so they'll be free to support their children, we're going to have an enormous amount of heartache and difficulty in this country. But if we do it, you'll have people living longer and better than ever before. The children of the baby boomers will be free to pursue their own destiny and they'll be free to raise their grandchildren in the best possible way. The second thing we ought to do is face the fact that we've got more kids in this country in school than ever before -- over 53 million of them. More of them come from families whose first language is not English than ever before. But it's a godsend in a global society if we can give every single one of them a world-class education. The third thing we ought to do is figure out how we can keep this economy going and how we can bring it to people who haven't felt it yet. Because I can tell you, in spite of all the prosperity the last six and a half years, there are inner-city communities, there's the Mississippi Delta, there are places in Appalachia, there are all these Indian reservations in America, there are small towns in upstate New York -- which, if it were a separate state, would rank 49th in job creation in the last five years -- where the sunshine of all this prosperity has not yet reached. We all hope there won't be other interest rate increases. We say, gosh, let's keep interest rates down and keep growth going. You want to expand the economy with no inflation, invest in the places that haven't had any growth. These are big deals. 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