Bill Clinton: “Well, your unemployment rate in Pennsylvania is above the national average, but it's a point lower than it was when I…”

“Well, your unemployment rate in Pennsylvania is above the national average, but it's a point lower than it was when I took office. You lost 8,300 jobs in the previous administration; you got 86,800 more under our administration. They had 12 years; we've had 21 months. You want to turn around and give the guys that put you in the hole in the first place 2 more years, 4 more years, 6 more years? You gave them 12 years. We've been given 21 months, and we've turned it around. Now, just because everybody hasn't felt it, that's not a good reason to stay home or vote Republican. They had 12 years, and we were in a big hole. We also had 20 years, through both parties, of stagnant wages and less secure jobs and losing benefits. And we have had 30 years of rising crime and family breakdown. We are at least addressing all these things for the first time. And it's pretty refreshing, I think, to have a Government that has taken on the tough problems instead of running away from them and that can at least show we're making some progress. And the worst thing in the world you can do is to say, ``Okay, we gave you these problems--we had 12 years of the other party's politics and economics, we've got 20 years of economic problems and 30 years of social problems--and we haven't felt anything in 21 months. So we're going to go back to the people that got us in the hole in the first place.'' That's not good thinking. If everybody will just relax and look at the record, they'll vote for Harris Wofford, they'll vote for Mark Singel, and they'll vote to keep this country moving in the right direction so that all of Pennsylvania can feel the results of these efforts. Mr. Lancer. All right, sir. But there have been changes in the way that those figures are tallied. Anyway----”