Bill Clinton: “I think she wants to complete this--I think she at least wants to complete her summer schedule and listen to these folks…”

“I think she wants to complete this--I think she at least wants to complete her summer schedule and listen to these folks and assess where she thinks it is. But I'm happy for her. It's a very exciting thing. New Markets Initiative Tour Mr. Jackson. Let me say to you, I thank you for this interview. This trek around America was most historic this week because we measure our strength politically by following opinion polls about how well Wall Street is doing, but you made the point over and over again that in the end you measure character by how you treat the least of these. And your dissatisfaction with 15 million children in poverty and 40 million without health insurance, your discomfort level with the poverty- stricken is a great moral statement and challenge for all of us. I hope that in this season that we can, in some bipartisan basis, move from the bickering racial battleground to economic common ground, a kind of--I lived in Mississippi and saw whites and blacks on a shared economic security agenda, you know, Patients' Bill of Rights and increased teacher pay and cut the infant mortality rates. I mean, it seemed that is--this is a certain pregnant moment with possibility that all of us should seize.”