Bill Clinton: “Well, first of all, as to the jury verdict, I have nothing to add to what I said after the last jury verdict. We have a…”

“Well, first of all, as to the jury verdict, I have nothing to add to what I said after the last jury verdict. We have a system here in this country which I think we should all respect. The only people who heard all the evidence were the people who were sitting in the jury box, in both cases. And civil trials and criminal trials are very different in different ways. So I have nothing to add to that. I respect the jury verdict. And in terms of the way Americans see the world differently, generally based on their race, that troubles me, and I spoke about it at some length at the University of Texas last year when we had the Million Man March here in Washington, and I was down there. I think the only answer to that is for us to spend more time listening to each other and try to put ourselves in each other's shoes and understand why we see the world in different ways and keep trying to overcome that. I would say that even though it's disturbing, we have succeeded so far in managing the world's most multiethnic, diverse democracy better than a lot of countries that are smaller than we are with fewer differences within them. And we just--this is a work that's never done-- that our different attitudes, our different viewpoints in some ways are the great strength of America, but if they're too--if we're too estranged, if the divide is too great, then we can't hold the country together. And we just have to keep working on it. And I intend to--I've worked on it hard for 4 years; we're talking about what else we might do. But in terms of the jury verdict, that's the system we have in America. It's over as far as I'm concerned. We need to get on with other things. But we always need to be working to try to bridge these divides between us. Budget Negotiations”