Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much, my good friend James Roosevelt, who has likewise been an inspiration to me over the years, and who…”

“Thank you very much, my good friend James Roosevelt, who has likewise been an inspiration to me over the years, and who knows and cares a great deal about a subject that we must all come to grips with this year, the crisis in health care; to Senator Pat Moynihan, one of the most productive people in public life in the 20th century in America. And Mrs. Cuomo, I'm delighted to see you here, and we wish Governor Cuomo good health. He might have thought to himself, on deciding whether to do the responsible thing and take to his sick bed today, that he's probably heard this speech before and he's probably given it before. [Laughter] I can't tell you how grateful I am to your Governor for his support and his wise counseling. We had a delightful time in the White House, Hillary and I and Governor and Mrs. Cuomo, not very long ago. It's something I will treasure for a long time. I'm glad to see Lieutenant Governor Lundine and Attorney General Abrams and Members of the Congress, and members of both parties from the New York Assembly and State Senate, and people here who are here because you are Americans. You're Republicans, Democrats, independents. I am glad to see you all here in this monument to America's possibility. I wanted to come here for a thousand reasons, some of which are obvious.…”