Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. Well, Joe, I agree with Hadassah; this is pretty impressive. I would like to thank all the members…”

“Thank you very much. Well, Joe, I agree with Hadassah; this is pretty impressive. I would like to thank all the members who are here, all the candidates who are here, the sponsors of this event, and those of you who have contributed, because this group is going to give the American people a chance to finally and fully ratify the ideas that we have been pursuing the last 6 years. I want to thank Simon. I did tell Senator Lieberman I thought Simon had given a good talk. One of the things that I always think that all of us should be doing is trying to recruit good young people and lift them up. Simon self-selected; we didn't have to recruit him at all. [Laughter] After surviving the War Room in '92, he understands that all you have to do is just sort of stand there and keep going, and it will be all right. I'm delighted to see so many of you here, so many old friends and some people who are getting involved in this. And I will be a little brief tonight. I rewrote my talk; here it is. Even I can't read it, so it will be less. Well, I'd like to just kind of recap how this all began.…”