Bill Clinton: “I thought I might have to get on the phone and phone around the world to get enough money to deal with it, but we made…”

“I thought I might have to get on the phone and phone around the world to get enough money to deal with it, but we made it. [Laughter] Disaster Assistance and Education Blenda Wilson. Mr. President, we're delighted that you would join us on this opening of our spring term. While we've been talking about disaster relief and health care, I recall your work several years ago with the education commission of the States and found you to be a strong advocate of education, partly because, I think, you realize as we do that the young people and middle-age people, for that matter, who attend California State University will be those citizens and employees and employers and entrepreneurs that are essential to economic development. When you think about the relationship of disaster relief and higher education and work-study programs, which are very important to you, what would you say to the students that are gathered here at this public university?”