Bill Clinton: “Wow! What a crowd. Thank you for coming this morning. Thank you for supporting health care. I want to thank Mary Ellen…”

“Wow! What a crowd. Thank you for coming this morning. Thank you for supporting health care. I want to thank Mary Ellen for that wonderful speech. She really left nothing for me to say. But she and the nurses of Minnesota have my undying gratitude for this wonderful rally and for their commitment to your health care and to the future of American health care. I want to thank Senator Wellstone and Congressman Sabo, who's done a wonderful job in his new leadership position, helping us to get a budget through that will drive down the deficit and still increase investment in the things that help America to grow and prosper. I thank you, Mayor Sayles, for being here. And I want to thank the others in the audience who are good friends and supporters of mine, especially Congressman Bruce Vento, who is also a strong supporter of health care reform; your secretary of state, Joan Crowe; your State treasurer, Mike McGrath; my good friend Skip Humphrey, your attorney general; and the Mayor of St. Paul, Norm Coleman. Thank you all for being here. I also couldn't come to Minneapolis today without saying a special word of gratitude for the extraordinary service being rendered to the United States of America under what you now know are difficult circumstances by our Ambassador to Japan, Vice President Fritz Mondale. I am honored to be here today under the sponsorship of the nurses of Minnesota. I thank them for doing this.…”