Bill Clinton: “Thank you. I will be brief, because I want to spend most of our time in a conversation. But I would like to say a few…”

“Thank you. I will be brief, because I want to spend most of our time in a conversation. But I would like to say a few things. First, I want to thank Senator Kerry for once again opening his home. I was here not very long ago with at least some of you who are here. I want to thank him for his genuine commitment to modernizing our party and to making it an instrument of progress and an instrument for bringing our country together. And I'm very grateful for the truly exceptional effort he's made. On the way in, Joe Andrew, our DNC chair, said that John Kerry had done more personally than any other Member of the Congress to try to help modernize and strengthen our party, in the last few months, particularly. So I thank you for that. And I thank Teresa in her absence, and I think she did the right thing to fulfill her responsibility. [Laughter] We always say we're for opportunity and responsibility, and--[laughter]-- she's had a fair share of one and discharged the lion's share of another. And we appreciate that. I want to thank Governor Romer and Beth Dozoretz and all of the other people who are here from the Democratic Party and all of you. Let me just say--I want to tell you a story. A lot of you know that Hillary and I--because of her, not me; it was her idea--have had a series of evenings at the White House called Millennium Evenings, this year, which we have primarily disseminated to the public at large through the Internet.…”