Bill Clinton: “Beverly Hills, California May 3, 1998 Thank you very much. There may be one person in America, Dick Gephardt's…”

“Beverly Hills, California May 3, 1998 Thank you very much. There may be one person in America, Dick Gephardt's 90-year-old mother, who wants to call him ``Mr. Speaker'' worse than I do--but no more than one. [Laughter] Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for hanging in there these last couple of years. You have no idea, those of you who may not follow this on a daily basis, how many good things happened since the 1994 elections, when we lost the majority, because we had a large, strong, united minority that on many occasions made common cause with a brave band of Republicans who would stand with us to continue to move this country forward. In some ways, that's a harder thing to do. And Dick Gephardt also led in that effort, and I'm very grateful to him for that. Thank you, Martin Frost. I thank all the members of the California delegation who were introduced. I thank Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis and our State Democratic chair, Art Torres, for being here as well. And ladies and gentlemen, I thank all of you, especially Eli and Edye, thanks for having me back at your house. You know, Martin Frost got up here and sort of made that offhand remark about how this was the largest amount of money that we had ever raised at a private home. And I thought if you got here in time to take a tour, you know it hasn't been a fair fight. [Laughter] I think I should repeat something I said.…”