Bill Clinton: “Well, I know he thinks that, and I don't want to get into this, because I can't--I mean, he says that, but this has…”

“Well, I know he thinks that, and I don't want to get into this, because I can't--I mean, he says that, but this has nothing to do with the underlying merits. This is either a good bill or not a good bill, number one. Number two, the Republicans on the conference committee were not even on the regular committee, and they were people who had no intention of voting for the Brady bill if all the changes they wanted were adopted. So the Democrats argued that they felt that they didn't know what they were supposed to talk about with people who weren't going to vote for it regardless and who weren't even on the committee that had jurisdiction of the Brady bill. So you can hear arguments on both sides about that, but that's irrelevant, that's irrelevant. This is a good thing for the American people. It's a good first step. It's the right thing to do. If you stay around these battles now, and you've been through all of the stuff we've been through just in the last year, all of us--if you go around letting your personal feelings get in the way of doing the public interest, we'd never get anything done around here.”