Bill Clinton: “Well, first of all, I'm not the best judge of that. Maybe I'm just not as good a talker as you folks thought I was when…”

“Well, first of all, I'm not the best judge of that. Maybe I'm just not as good a talker as you folks thought I was when I got elected President. Maybe there's so much going on it's hard for anything specific to get through. Maybe it's partly a function of the times in which we live. Whenever we move from one historic era into another--at the end of World War I, at the end of World War II, moving into the cold war; now at the end of the cold war, moving toward the 21st century--our people are filled with a mixture of hope and concern. Almost every American is genuinely concerned about something now, whether it's their economic circumstances, their health care, insecurity over crime, concern about what's happening to the fabric of our society with so many children being born out of wedlock and so many families breaking down. There's something gripping the concern of most Americans. And when people have these balances going on, hope or fear, it is sometimes difficult to get through with the hope and the progress. I can't worry about that. All I can do is to show up for work here every day and, as I said today to the folks who rode the buses for health care, try to make this the home office of the ``American association for ordinary citizens.'' And if I keep doing that, I think that the future will take care of itself. My only concern is to continue to be able to be effective, and that's what I will work for. Brit [Brit Hume, ABC News]. Health Care Legislation”