Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. Mr. Durso, thank you for welcoming me here to Springbrook. Secretary Riley, thank you for bringing…”

“Thank you very much. Mr. Durso, thank you for welcoming me here to Springbrook. Secretary Riley, thank you for bringing me along. I want to introduce the Secretary of Education, Dick Riley; the Secretary of Energy, Federico Pena. I thank Governor Glendening and Senator Sarbanes and Congressman Wynn and the Maryland State superintendent, Nancy Grasmick; your president of the school board, Nancy King, and all the other people from Maryland who have made us feel so welcome; the Governor of West Virginia, Governor Underwood; and the mayor of Los Angeles, Mayor Riordan; and other people who were on our panel are over there. I'd like for all the people who came from all over America to be with us to stand up--Rudy Crew, the superintendent of New York; many other leaders there. Thank you all very much, Bob Moses and the others. Those people came from all over America today to your school to discuss one very important thing for your future: How can we improve the learning of American students in math and science on the edge of a new century and a new millennium, where so much of the public welfare and so much of people's individual lives will be determined by whether they understand and can use and apply math and science? And I think you ought to give them a hand for doing that.…”