Bill Clinton: “Well, for one thing, the only polls I've seen show overwhelming public support for the Patients' Bill of Rights, for…”

“Well, for one thing, the only polls I've seen show overwhelming public support for the Patients' Bill of Rights, for closing the gun show loophole, for the other commonsense gun initiatives--overwhelming support. There is public--strong public support for campaign finance reform. There's overwhelming public support for the gun legislation and some of these issues, like the Patients' Bill of Rights, for example, the support is almost uniform among Republicans, Democrats, and independents. So I don't know what issues we're pushing, as it happens, that the public agrees with the Republicans and disagrees with us on. I recognize that the public was ambivalent about Kosovo, but they were ambivalent about Bosnia and Haiti and a lot of the other things that I've done in foreign policy--helping Mexico when they were in trouble. But I think the President hires on to make the tough decisions and controversial decisions, too. You know, the Democrats stayed--when we were in much worse shape in '93 and '94, the Democrats stayed because they believed we were right. We knew that when we cut the deficit $500 billion and we were all by ourselves--we didn't have any Republican votes--it wasn't going to be popular. And you could characterize it, but it was the right thing for America. And look at where our economy is today. So I think, no matter what the polls say, you just have to get up every day and do what you think is right. And that's what we're doing, and I think we'll be borne out. Yes, go ahead. Moral Decline”