Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much, Eljay. If you want to see which job has more stress, this is the print on his introduction, and…”

“Thank you very much, Eljay. If you want to see which job has more stress, this is the print on his introduction, and this is the print on my card. [Laughter] Let me say, first of all, I came here to express my appreciation to all of you for continuing these regular meetings and increasing our ability to do the work of law enforcement by this kind of coordination. I think it is terribly important, and I thank you for doing it. Because so many issues involving Federal law enforcement have been in the public's mind in the last several weeks, I would like to say a few things and then just sit here and visit with you and listen to you for a while. Let me begin by saying that we all know that this country still has too much violence, too many drugs, too many gangs, that the culture of violence is still causing enormous difficulty in our country. There was a profoundly moving story in one of our newspapers today about a 16-year-old boy who just shot a 12-year-old boy dead because he thought he'd been treated with disrespect. And this comes just a few days after a national survey in which two-thirds of young gang members said they thought it was acceptable to shoot a person just because they treated you with disrespect. This is the environment that we have to change in America today, the paranoia, the division, the willingness to resort to that kind of destructive behavior.…”