Bill Clinton: “I haven't watched, so I don't know. But as I have said repeatedly, and I know that some of you have scoffed at me for…”

“I haven't watched, so I don't know. But as I have said repeatedly, and I know that some of you have scoffed at me for saying it, the coffees in particular I found quite helpful, because they brought in all kinds of people from all over America and they just talked. Most of the times--I would say the vast majority of the times-- the issues raised by people at the coffees did not bear directly on their personal business activities. And I wish, I have said repeatedly, that we had at least a print reporter at all these coffees, so they would have been reported, and there wouldn't have been any undue suspicion about it. It never occurred to me one way or another, because Presidents have meetings all the time without reporters there. But in this case--we still meet with groups of people, although not necessarily just political supporters. I think those kinds of things are good. But in terms of the fundraisers, when I see the films of those, it just reminds me of how hard we worked last year. And we knew we were going to be outspent, and we just didn't want to be outspent too bad, so we did a lot of fundraisers. 1996 Campaign Finance Inquiry”