Bill Clinton: “Let me make one other point about this. Let me say that I have started--and this question may have come from someone…”

“Let me make one other point about this. Let me say that I have started--and this question may have come from someone who'd seen the press on this. But I have started every week or 2 weeks for the last couple of months, through Alexis Herman, who is my special Assistant for Public Liaison--she works with groups throughout the country and also helped organize my coming here today--having lunch with business leaders from around the country. And we try always to have one smaller business person in with a lot of the big business leaders who come. We have manufacturers, people from finance. We always try to have at least one small business person at the table, or either that or someone who started a business from scratch that may not be so small anymore, but they started--just to try to have the mix. It's been an immensely valuable thing for me just to do this. And we just take an hour-and-a-half informal, off-the-record lunch. We talk about whatever they want to talk about and a couple of things that I'm working on. But it really helps to keep me connected to what's going on out there. It's pretty easy to get isolated, as I'm sure you know, in this town. And so I would embrace this. I'm glad you stood up when I said it, but it will do me more good than it will you. I'll get a lot out of it, and we'll follow up. Government and the Private Sector Moderator. Mr. President, your staff says that they will give us time for one more question.”