Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much for the warm welcome. Thank you, Monsignor Finnerty, for greeting me when I came through the door of…”

“Thank you very much for the warm welcome. Thank you, Monsignor Finnerty, for greeting me when I came through the door of St. Sebastian. Thank you, my longtime friend Claire Shulman, for being here. Thank you, Joe Crowley, for presenting yourself as a candidate for Congress. He got good marks from Chuck Schumer as an athlete, and you must have noticed that he's quite a large man. I told him that next January I'd like him to be one of the whips in the Congress to get the votes gathered up, because I think people would be reluctant to say no to him. I love coming to Queens. I never will forget the first time I came out here when I was running for President in 1992, and Harold Ickes was helping me. And he said, ``We're going to go out to Queens, and we're going to meet with the Queens County Democratic Committee. And Congressman Tom Manton is the chairman of the committee.'' And he said, ``I think we can get them to be for you.'' I said, ``Now, why in the world would they endorse me? Most of those people have probably never thought about Arkansas, much less been there.'' And he said, ``Yes, but they're a lot like you out there in Queens. You'll be right at home. You'll like that.'' [Laughter] So we got on the subway, and there was a television camera or two with me. And no one in New York knew who I was at the time, so they probably thought we were filming a commercial or something.…”