Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. I'll tell you, I've been around John Glenn a lot; that's the best darn speech I ever heard him…”

“Thank you very much. I'll tell you, I've been around John Glenn a lot; that's the best darn speech I ever heard him give. [Laughter] Let me see if I can remember that, ``You don't make America stronger by taking Big Bird away from 5-year-olds, school lunches away from 10-year- olds, summer jobs away from 15-year-olds, or student loans away from 20- year-olds.'' That's a pretty good line. That's a good line. I want to thank our national chairman, Don Fowler, for his tireless work and for being here, and your remarkable State party chair, David Leland, for this incredible event. I thank you, sir, and all who worked on it. I thank all the distinguished officials that are up here on the dais with me, and especially my colleagues Congressman Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, and Congressman Tom Sawyer. Thank you for your fine work. I have, I understand, two friends out in the audience, former colleagues, your former Attorney General Lee Fisher and your former Governor Dick Celeste; hello to you wherever you are, and thank you for being here. Ladies and gentlemen--Ted Strickland, is he here? Where are you, Ted? Thank you. I want to thank the remarkable Central State University Marching Band, thank you very much for playing. I'd like to thank the others who performed before I came out here, America's Pride and Darla's Dancers and Madeline Reberra, thank you all. I have a very great deal to be thankful to Ohio for, as it has been pointed out.…”