Bill Clinton: “But to me the issue is, there ought to be--I think opportunity ought to have a black face, a brown face, a yellow face…”

“But to me the issue is, there ought to be--I think opportunity ought to have a black face, a brown face, a yellow face, as well as a white face. That's the way I look at this welfare issue. On the crime bill, if you'll remember--all the big battles on the crime bill were on the prevention programs, on the positive programs, where the Democrats stuck up for them and the Republicans attacked them viciously and for pure political benefit. Some of those prevention programs had been sponsored and put into the bill by Republican Members of Congress. And then as soon as we got close to the election, they turned like a dog in the night on that bill and started talking about how it was just a pork bill and just a giveaway and how midnight basketball was terrible. They did that. It was the Democrats that stood for the prevention programs, for giving our kids something to say yes to, for some remedy-based solutions, to use your phrase, in that crime bill--again showing that it makes a big difference who is in and who is not. That crime bill gives communities the tools to make a difference in young people's lives, if they will use it. Social Security [Following a commercial break, Mr. Gordon introduced a senior citizen from Miami, FL, who asked about Social Security.]”