Bill Clinton actually said...

I simply don't believe that we should be diverting resources when our schools have been relatively underfunded on the whole.

Interview With Tom Joyner, Tavis Smiley, and Sybil Wilkes on the Tom Joyner Morning Show in Little Rock

09/25/1997

More Bill Clinton Quotes

I want to say just exactly what I said. We don't have a surplus.

Any policy we adopt must not—it cannot—run any risk of returning to the failed policies of the past.

I can now say that we believe that the deficit this year will be less than $22 billion.

I will do everything that I can to prevent anyone from using a projected future surplus as a pretext for returning to the failed policies of...