Bill Clinton: “Urbana January 28, 1998 Thank you. First of all, thank you for coming, and thank you for waiting. I'm sorry you had to…”

“Urbana January 28, 1998 Thank you. First of all, thank you for coming, and thank you for waiting. I'm sorry you had to wait so long. I want to thank Secretary Riley and the Vice President, and I also want to thank your Congressman, Congressman Tom Ewing, for coming along with me. Let's give him a big hand. [Applause] We have had an incredible day at the University of Illinois--an incredible day. You know, this is the third meeting we've been to. You had to sit through the other two, didn't you? Is that okay? [Applause] This reminds me--I hate to give the same speech over, but once I went to a concert where Tina Turner sang--you all know who Tina Turner is--and at the end of the concert, after singing all her new songs, she started to sing her first hit, ``Proud Mary.'' And the crowd started clapping, and she said, ``I have been singing this song for 25 years, but it gets better every time I do it.'' But I'm not going to give you the whole dose again. I want to just make two points very briefly. Number one, the Vice President and I and our administration, we've worked very hard these last 5 years to get America in good shape, to have this country work again for ordinary people. And I think you can see, from the condition of the economy and from the fact that we're making real progress on our social problems and from our work in the world at large, that we're making that kind of progress.…”