Bill Clinton: “Yes, well, we've talked about it on and off over the years. I'll bet you we first discussed it, oh, probably 10 years…”

“Yes, well, we've talked about it on and off over the years. I'll bet you we first discussed it, oh, probably 10 years ago, 10, 11, 12 years ago, just the two of us, because we always wanted more children. Although we've been immensely happy with Chelsea, we've always wanted more children, and it just never worked out. We also are both intensely committed to adoption. Hillary was ecstatic when, in the minimum wage bill, that $5,000 tax credit for adoption and the bill banning cross-racial adoption prejudice, you know, all that passed. She was so happy. So we talk about it. But I think we need to, first of all, get this election by us, and then we need to really sit there and seriously think about what the implications of this would be for a child. Do you want to bring a child into the White House? I mean, adopted kids have enough trouble adjusting as it is, unless they're just infants. And I wouldn't want us to go in front of anybody else. I wouldn't want any kind of special treatment. We've got too many young couples out there trying to raise a family. And then if we decided we ought to wait until we get out of the White House, would we be too old--me especially; she's younger than I am. So those are the things we'd have to think about. But in general, I find it very appealing, and I think that--you know, we talk a lot about abortion and what could be made to make abortion more rare. And I think if we had a climate in this country of really--an adoption climate that was trusted by people, and we didn't have these hundreds of thousands of kids just trapped in foster care forever and a day, that the whole idea of adoption as an alternative to abortion might gain a little more currency in our country. Democratic Party Ms. Dougherty. We have just a very short amount of time, Mr. President, but a quick question. You're off to Chicago, and when the Republicans were out in California, they were depicted as a party that was split down the middle over the issue of abortion. And here you are, off to Chicago, facing, we think, demonstrators from your own party who will be angry about welfare, about same-sex marriages. Here in Kentucky, there was some demonstrators today angry about--tobacco people angry about your decisions on smoking. Aren't the Democrats as divided as the Republicans?”