Bill Clinton: “Illinois May 4, 1998 Thank you very much. Well, first, let me--a lot of things have already happened here tonight that I…”

“Illinois May 4, 1998 Thank you very much. Well, first, let me--a lot of things have already happened here tonight that I didn't intend to happen. [Laughter] And I feel that I should quit while I'm still not too far behind. [Laughter] It's not often that a man in his declining years can demonstrate a loss of hearing, a loss of memory, and a loss of the muscles necessary to play a saxophone all in one fell swoop. [Laughter] But even when I was a kid, when I was a teenager and I could play pretty well, there was one unbroken rule that all of us who actually played and tried to earn a little money--never, never walk into a strange place and pick up a strange horn. [Laughter] And if you do, always have your own mouthpiece. [Laughter] And if you disregard both rules, you deserve whatever happens to you. [Laughter] But I had a good time. And the musicians and Shelley covered my sins pretty well. You were terrific. Thank you, Bill and Shelley, for having us here. [Applause] Thank you. I want to thank Bill and Shelley and Jim and all the people who worked on this dinner tonight. I thank all of you for coming. I thank Dick Durbin for his great service in the Senate and for his good humor. I wish I'd written down those cracks; they were pretty funny. [Laughter] Thank you, Mayor Daley, for everything you do. And everything they said about you, I agree with, and then some. I'd like to also thank Bill Daley for being a truly terrific Secretary of Commerce and doing a great job for us.…”