Bill Clinton: “Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, David Jones. Let me just comment first on what Mr. Jones said. I think we do have to…”

“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, David Jones. Let me just comment first on what Mr. Jones said. I think we do have to provide some assistance to build up these community-based, nonprofit organizations. And I do think the National Government has to take the lead in health care, in trying to put together the kind of system that will work on job training and apprenticeship programs, as well as trying to take a little different direction, as you know I feel we should, on the drug front. And that's one reason I asked Lee Brown to be the drug czar. But I'm also convinced that if we do this, that building these things at the grassroots level and having everything driven by that is the only way to ever get anything done, in my opinion. You know, we've got to help people to help themselves, and that's what this whole thing is about. The other point I wanted to make in response to what you said, Mayor Dinkins, is, first of all, thank you for the compliments on the people in my administration. Andrew Cuomo had a lot to do with putting this initiative together, and he's sitting here in the Oval Office with me. Actually, he's standing in the back, so he grew about 4 inches when you were bragging on him in front of America. Mayor Dinkins. Very good.”