Bill Clinton: “Well, I think that nearly every objective observer who's looked at it believes that progressively over the last however…”

“Well, I think that nearly every objective observer who's looked at it believes that progressively over the last however many years we have tended to turn our political differences into legal battles in ways that have enormous costs, human costs for the people involved in them and for our democracy. But I think--frankly, I think at this--given the posture in which some of these things are in, I'm not the person to be making recommendations on the resolution of it. There are others who are writing about it. I noticed there was a woman who worked for both Mr. Fiske and Mr. Starr who wrote an article in one of the legal periodicals in the last month or so arguing for some changes in the way these matters are dealt with. There are a lot of people who are troubled by this and are thinking about it. But I think that--I think that at least for the time being that it's not for me to be the one who's suggesting what should be done. But a lot of people, I think, in both parties who care about it are concerned about the costs of this as compared with any benefit that comes from it.”