Bill Clinton: “Crime Briefing May 4, 1994 Thank you very much, Secretary Cisneros, ladies and gentlemen. I am delighted to see you…”

“Crime Briefing May 4, 1994 Thank you very much, Secretary Cisneros, ladies and gentlemen. I am delighted to see you here, and I know what you've been here talking about. I just want to make sure that you know when you heard from the Vice President and then Secretary Cisneros, that you were looking at two of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people of the year. [Laughter] Some of us resent that. All I can tell you is that I hope to live to see both of them become President of the United States--[laughter]--because they would not only be outstanding Presidents, they would quickly lose any eligibility for that title. I want to thank you for many things; first, for working with Secretary Cisneros and the people of HUD to deal with the problem of safety in public housing. And especially, I want to thank my good friend Vince Lane and the other folks in Chicago who tried to help us work through this court decision so that the people who live in these units would still have the right to be protected from a level of crime and violence that many Americans would find it impossible even to imagine. I also want to ask you--everyone who is here today and everybody who's associated with public housing and every law enforcement officer who is here and all those whom you represent--to call every Member of Congress in the next 24 hours and ask them to vote on this assault weapons ban for law enforcement. This is an amazing conflict.…”