Bill Clinton: “Everybody in America was for it. We had the chemical companies, the unions, the Sierra Club; they were all for it--first…”

“Everybody in America was for it. We had the chemical companies, the unions, the Sierra Club; they were all for it--first time they had ever agreed on anything. There was no one in America against it except over 40 Republican Senators who filibustered it to death to keep people like Ted Kennedy from coming back to Massachusetts and saying we helped to clean up toxic waste dumps. They were willing to leave the poison in the ground. That's how bitter and partisan and obstructionist they are. They killed lobby reform and campaign finance reform. And all the lobbyists were cheering Senator Helms when he walked off the floor of the Senate and saying how great it was. Now, I don't think the American people want to turn the Congress over to them. And especially, I don't think they want to go back to trickle-down Reaganomics. That's what they've promised to do, you know. They've promised to give us the economic policies that they did in the eighties that put New England in the ditch. And I don't think that the people will support it once they know that. Ms. Clapprood. Well, you know, one of the things that I loved about your campaign, Mr. President, was the slogan ``It's the economy, stupid.'' And it seems as though, with all the indicators macroeconomically looking so terrific--what is the deal with cynical voters? I mean, how do we get this message out? It seems to me that you can't win for losing, even when everything looks good.”