Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. David, I was hoping you'd talk a little longer; I didn't even get to finish my salad. [Laughter]…”

“Thank you very much. David, I was hoping you'd talk a little longer; I didn't even get to finish my salad. [Laughter] Ladies and gentlemen, I'm delighted to be here tonight. I've already had a chance to say hello to almost all of you, except the Members of the Senate who see me all the time. I thanked Senator Metzenbaum and Senator Levin--they came upstairs to see me, Senator Kennedy. We even had our picture taken. I came all the way to Boston to see you, and you didn't do that. [Laughter] I want to thank Norman Brownstein for the wonderful work he did tonight in getting you all here. Let's give him a hand. [Applause] I'd also like to say a brief word if I might about this wonderful facility we are in. We have some people here who are still associated with it. The Holladays, who helped to found this, were good enough to support me early in my Presidential campaign. And a lot of our friends have been active in this wonderful place which once actually had a fine showing of artists, women artists, from my home State here. So I have been delighted to have finally the chance to come here and see this and I--Mr. Chairman, I don't know who picked this place, but whoever did is a near genius in my estimation, because I love it. It was just about a month and a week ago when we had the remarkable signing of the Israel-PLO peace accord on the grounds of the White House. Many of you were there. I imagine all of you saw it.…”