Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. When we have events here in this room with people who have come to share their experiences, very…”

“Thank you very much. When we have events here in this room with people who have come to share their experiences, very often I feel like a fifth wheel. I think everything that needs to be said has already been said. [Laughter] But I want to begin by thanking Dawn Keane for her wonderful statement; her husband, Steve; and Sean, Brian, and Sarah. They're beautiful children. They did a good job at the microphone, didn't they? [Laughter] I want to thank Olivia Golden and Pat Montoya for their work at HHS on this important issue. I'd like to thank this remarkable bipartisan delegation from the House of Representatives here, Dave Camp and Nancy Johnson and Ben Cardin and Maxine Waters, Sandy Levin and Congressman DeLay. This may be the only issue all six of these people agree on. [Laughter] Tom's nodding his head up and down. [Laughter] I'll tell you a funny story; this is a true story. The other day I was reading a profile of Tom DeLay in the newspaper. And I got about halfway through, and he was giving me the devil for something. You know, he's very good at that. [Laughter] And he started grinding on my golf game and saying that I didn't count my scores and all this, and I was getting really angry. [Laughter] And then I get to the next part of the story, and it talks all about his experience and his commitment to adoption and to foster children and the personal experience that he and his wife had. And my heart just melted.…”