Bill Clinton: “California September 20, 1997 Thank you very much. First let me thank all of you for coming. I'm sorry we were a little…”

“California September 20, 1997 Thank you very much. First let me thank all of you for coming. I'm sorry we were a little late getting here. Maybe we were just a little slow on the uptake after yesterday. I think you know we had another stop to make before we could come up. But I'm very grateful to you for being here. I thank Alan Solomont and Dan Dutko for being here and for their work for our Democratic Party. Thank you, John Goldman, and all the other cochairs of this event. This has been an interesting weekend for Hillary and for me, and I'm actually glad to be here. And when Mayor Brown said what he did--I think I came to California in my first term more than 30 times. I don't know if I can come out here anymore. [Laughter] If I come out here anymore, Willie will have me paying taxes in San Francisco. [Laughter] But I do want to say that I'm very grateful to the people of this State not only for the support that I have received--Al Gore and I were fortunate enough to carry California both in 1992 and by an even bigger margin in 1996--but also for the work that was done by Californians with our administration which made it possible for us to help California to make the comeback that is now evident to everyone. It was always clear to me that this State, which was effectively the sixth biggest economy in the world and had 13 percent of the population of America, had to make a big economic comeback in order for America to come back.…”