Bill Clinton: “Now, wait a minute, stop screaming. I'm not through yet. [Laughter] I want you all to listen to this because you'll have…”

“Now, wait a minute, stop screaming. I'm not through yet. [Laughter] I want you all to listen to this because you'll have a chance to tell this again, and I want you to do it before it's over. [Laughter] Number two, in this country today the average family of four with an income of under $30,000 will have a tax bill $1,000 lower than it was when I took office. That's not the whole middle class, but that's a big chunk of it, and they're better off because of our plan. Number three, 90 percent--nine-zero--90 percent of the people who own small businesses in this country have lower taxes because of the '93 economic plan. Number four, if my version of the balanced budget had passed instead of their version, which had excessive cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, over half--up to 60 to 70 percent of the American people would have had a tax reduction, and one we could afford, that would have still allowed us to balance the budget without hurting the future of America. So that's my answer to your question. Now I'd like to go on to the speech. I'm kind of glad you asked, and I hope you'll find some more of your troops to seed some more of our rallies. [Laughter] And then we'll get more truth out to the American people. It'll be a better election as a result. Thank you very much. Now, where are we? [Laughter] Let me go back to where I started. That's politics. Let's talk about the future. What's it going to look like when our children are our age? What's it going to look like when our grandchildren are our age? That's the real question. I believe that we ought to go into the next century with three simple things on our mind, three things. And you ought to ask yourself whether you agree. You may not agree with all three of them. One is, every person in this country who is willing to work for it, without regard to their race, their gender, their station in life, ought to have a chance--not a guarantee but a chance--to live out their dreams. Two, we ought to be committed to the proposition that America will not be destroyed by the racial, religious, ethnic, and tribal tensions that are tearing the rest of the world up, that we're going to be stronger as a result of it. We're going to be stronger as a result of it. Number three, we ought to be committed, even though it costs money and it is sometimes difficult, to the proposition that America will remain the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity because a lot of the threats to our security---- Audience member. [Inaudible]”