Bill Clinton: “Let me just say, yesterday Reverend Jackson and I spent a few minutes together in preparation for this day. And he went…”

“Let me just say, yesterday Reverend Jackson and I spent a few minutes together in preparation for this day. And he went through what he was going to say. And the thing I want to say, quite apart from the incredible power of his remarks, is that he has given us a way to take what is working and to spread it across the country. And we now have to see if we're willing to do that. Can you find 20,000 parents in 50 cities? Can you find this number of churches in 50 cities? Can we prove that we can take these--if you want to prove that you--we know objectively we can't jail our way out of the crisis, but we have never presented, frankly, a constructive alternative that we could spread across the country. You can build a jail in one city and another, and it looks about the same. This program or that program or the other program may not look the same in every community. So the great--the enduring genius of what he has said today may well be his plan that would allow us to systematically make a difference across the country and offer us an alternative approach to this in the future. And I thank you, sir. Jim--Mr. Burke. [James Burke, chairman, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, reiterated the link between drug abuse and other social problems but explained that drug use had declined over the years due to changing attitudes toward drugs. He added that more leadership was needed at all levels to continue changing those attitudes and suggested listening to youth for ideas about what could be done.]”