Bill Clinton: “If we have learned the lessons of the past, we can leave a very different legacy for our children.”

the era of big government is over

We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.

We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.'

It was too late for a primary.