Bill Clinton: “Well, I think for one thing, when a country assumes the responsibilities of membership, you want to be--[inaudible]…”

“Well, I think for one thing, when a country assumes the responsibilities of membership, you want to be--[inaudible]-- hopefully, would even be helpful because of the extra psychological boost it gives. So Poland and the Czech Republic and Hungary, they've all been through that roller coaster that the economists call the J-curve, where you undertake the reforms, there's a drop in economic output, people suffer, they go through it, they bottom out, and then they start coming back. And they've been through that. So you don't want to impose on a country big, new external burdens while they're going through that. But on the other hand, you don't want to take away the hope that these people have waited decades for. Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassination Investigation”