Bill Clinton: “many years ago when I was a schoolgirl, on this day someone might come up to me in the hallway and say: Hillary, your…”

“many years ago when I was a schoolgirl, on this day someone might come up to me in the hallway and say: Hillary, your skirt is ripped. I would turn around in panic, and they would say: April Fools'. Or maybe somebody would stop me after class and say: Hillary, I heard Janie is really mad at you, and I don't know what you did to her, but you'd better talk to her. I would feel terrible. Before I could do anything about it, someone would say: April Fools'. Well, today is April 1, and there is a long tradition of people playing jokes on each other, pulling stunts, and then causing someone to be upset or worried or anxious or maybe even happy that they have been told something is going to happen, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when someone says, either jokingly or sometimes a little cruelly: April Fools'. Thankfully, that day only came once a year, so you only had to endure your friends or maybe your not-so-friendly classmates' jokes and stunts for 24 hours. But I sometimes feel that it is April Fools' Day every single day here on Capitol Hill, on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House, because on issue after issue of profound importance to the American people, our Government is basically saying: April Fools'. Do you remember when they introduced their budget in 2001 and said: "If you drastically cut taxes on the wealthiest of Americans, why, my goodness, revenues will increase in the budget.…”