Bill Clinton: “Thank you. Please be seated. Thank you. You know, maybe the Vice President should stay up all night more often.…”

“Thank you. Please be seated. Thank you. You know, maybe the Vice President should stay up all night more often. [Laughter] He's on a roll today. I received on Saturday, a day early, very courteously from the New York Times, a copy of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, just preceding the day of the Inauguration, and it had a lot of nice things in it--an article about whether I believed in anything. [Laughter] The conclusion was accurate: that I believed in civil rights and that I believed that Government can do good things for people that they can't do on their own. But far more important, the Sunday crossword puzzle had as its theme ``Inauguration,'' with several very clever clues like ``Movie about Presidential aspirations''--``Hope Dreams,'' instead of ``Hoop Dreams.'' You get it? But the most important clue in the whole thing was ``Mathematical rules governing the Vice President's macarena.'' And the answer was ``Al-Gore-rhythms.'' [Laughter] And it struck me that a major part of the history of this time will be the ``Al-Gore-rhythms'' that have reverberated across America. Ladies and gentlemen, I come here more than anything else to thank you, to thank our outgoing leaders and our incoming leaders, to thank the members of the Democratic National Committee and all those whom you represent who are active in our party, who were there in that vast crowd yesterday along the parade route and even more of them who were back home just watching and cheering on television.…”