Bill Clinton: “After years and years of dealing with things of this kind, my instinct is that what Governor Carlson said is right, that…”

“After years and years of dealing with things of this kind, my instinct is that what Governor Carlson said is right, that what Minnesota learned and what we learned in all the Midwestern States that were engulfed in the flood of '93 will give us some very valuable lessons about what to do in the rebuilding in all the communities affected here, with the exception of these two where you've had the total destruction of communities of this size. In my experience, we've not gone through anything like this. So I do think we're going to have to be creative and flexible. I just want to make two brief points, but I want to--before I do, we have some other mayors here, and I know we can't hear from everybody, but Mayor Stauss, would you like to say anything? [The discussion continued.]”