Bill Clinton: “Pennsylvania September 25, 1996 Thank you very much. Thank you, Don Fowler, for your remarks. I was standing outside and…”

“Pennsylvania September 25, 1996 Thank you very much. Thank you, Don Fowler, for your remarks. I was standing outside and I heard them. I thank you for what you said, and I thank you for your extraordinary hard work, your devotion, and your incredible energy. He is probably traveling considerably more than I am. He's worked hard to bring our party back and I thank him. Thank you, Tom Leonard, for always, always being there for me, for our administration, and for our country. And thank you, Mayor Rendell. You know, when you started that, I didn't quite know where you were going. [Laughter] He said, ``If I had told you in the fall of 1991 that all this would happen,'' and he went through all these--I thought he said, ``And then I got elected mayor.'' [Laughter] And that's what brought it on. And Philadelphia sparked a firestorm of reform and investment--[laughter]--all over America, in every State. Well, I shook hands with one of your police officers today when we were down getting our cheesesteak at Pat's--[laughter]--and the police officer said, ``Mr. President, the first time I met you, you were Governor, and you and the mayor were shooting baskets not very far from here.'' You remember that? And so I looked at the police officer, and I said, ``Now, who won that?'' [Laughter] He knew what he was supposed to answer. And I assured him that in 1992 and again in 1996, I could take it; there was only one contest I was interested in winning. And Mayor Rendell won the other one.…”