Bill Clinton: “Nobody does. Nobody does. You know, they used to attack us and say, ``Oh, the Democrats are indiscriminate. They just…”

“Nobody does. Nobody does. You know, they used to attack us and say, ``Oh, the Democrats are indiscriminate. They just want to spend more money on everything.'' Well, that's not true anymore. We cut 300 programs. I've asked the Congress to cut 400 more or consolidate them. I don't want to spend more money on everything. I want to spend more money on the right things. They want to spend less money on everything. Neither extreme is right. The right thing to do is to say education is the fault line in the modern world; if you want the American dream, if you want the middle class to grow, if you want us to go up and down together, we had better get every last person in this country a decent education. And we had better not walk away from it. You imagine this, imagine what California would have been like when all these layoffs started occurring if we had had the ``GI bill'' for America's workers that I proposed. Take all these Federal training programs, put them in a block of money, and send a check to the unemployed worker for 2 years, say, ``Go out and get your training. Do not sit where you are. We will help you pay for 2 years of education for a lifetime.'' We're going to have to do this if we want America to grow. We're going to have to do it. Let me close with a few words on this affirmative action issue and know where we are as Democrats. Audience members. [Inaudible]”