Bill Clinton: “Well, I thought it was effective in the sense that I got a chance to get back to the basic values and the basic ideas…”

“Well, I thought it was effective in the sense that I got a chance to get back to the basic values and the basic ideas that got me into the race for President in the first place, really that drove my whole public service career before I became President. It was a little longer than I wanted it to be, partly because I was frankly not anticipating that the Congress and especially the Republicans would respond as positively as they did to some of the things that I said. And I appreciated it, but it lengthened the speech some. That was a good problem to have. That was what my friend Mack McLarty calls a high-class problem. Mr. Brokaw. Well, I always get the impression, though, that once you get up there and get into a roll, so to speak, it's pretty hard for you to sit down; you love the art of political oratory so much.”