Bill Clinton: “Let me say this, first of all, I agree with what you said about people being in college--people who are going to college…”

“Let me say this, first of all, I agree with what you said about people being in college--people who are going to college who are full-time students. We are looking at whether--if there's some way to get--to deal with that because I don't think people should be pulled out of college. I agree with that. Secondly, for one thing, you just--from the point of view of the State of New York, this is a--we're trying to work this out because the States basically have control of this. The State of New York would be much better with you as a college graduate, which is the point you tried to make. So I believe that. Now, the other problem is these training programs essentially are all run by the States and the cities. But I will do some--you've given me some things that we need to obviously do some work on. We need to make sure that there is an adequate training and preparation. That's one of the things I know that you've talked about--what you can do here because an awful lot of people who move from welfare, who are just thrown into these jobs, don't last because they were never prepared for them in the first place, and they're traumatized as a result of it. And oftentimes, just basic preparation of a few months can make a--a few weeks even--can make all the difference in the world. So we'll go back and do--we will pay some more attention to that. But on the college education thing, I think you're right, and I think we ought to find some way to accommodate that, and we're working on that. [The discussion continued.]”