Bill Clinton

That's a very good question. Because when the President swears the Oath of Office, when he puts his hand on the Bible and swears before God and all the American people to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States, that…

Someday all of you will know more about me than I do. [Laughter] Hillary Clinton. I know. We wanted to be sure if you had any questions for us, you'd have a chance to ask, okay? My goodness! We won't be able to answer every question…

Stand up, and let's look at that T-shirt. Hillary Clinton. That's really nice. How about fourth-graders? Where are the fourth-graders? You have a lot of responsibility, I know. How about fifth-graders? Fifth-graders--great. I can see we…

I hope we can do something on lobbying reform and on campaign finance reform.

I think we all know that we're expert in stopping things.

The country can be better off if we work together than if we don't.

I think that we're off to a good start.

I think the people are sick, literally sick of seeing all this partisan infighting up here.

I also think there is a consensus in this country that we shouldn't do anything that would increase the deficit.

I'm excited about it and ready to go.

My job is to work with them to try to help build this country.

I'm going to do my best to make good things happen for America.

I hope it will this time, and I pledge to sign it quickly.

I'm going to go home and put on some different duds and talk to Hillary about it. Then I'll go down to the Plantation Museum. Did you see it down there?

Oh, sure. This young lady made it all the way from here to Mount Vernon College. Good for you. Good luck to you. What do you teach?

No, because it's a double extra large. It's too big, so you can just swing away. [Laughter] But it's a--yes, it cuts down on your distance. But when you're out there in a hailstorm, you don't expect to hit it very far. [Laughter] Are we…

You know, Hillary gave me a great Goretex suit that you can wear in the rain. It's rain-repellent. I've played a lot of golf in it.

Yes, I've played golf in a lot worse. I've played golf here in 35 degrees sleet. But I had my uniform. It takes a special uniform for that.

No, no. These guys don't have their hamburgers yet. They said 5 minutes they'd have everybody's. I'm sorry, I thought you all had been fed.

Oh, yeah. You know, I've worked like a dog for the first 2 years. I worked every weekend. I worked at night. And I think I need to do a little more of this. And I'm glad I did the work, and I'm glad we got done what we did, but I also…

Yes. Well, like I said, those are hand-made. And the guy that hand-made that is the mayor of Stuttgart, which is where they have the international duck calling championship.

I'll tell you what, I heard you on that duck call, it was like a magnet--[laughter]--come flying into the pond. [Laughter]

Oh, yes. Yes, I'm real happy about that. [At this point, the President finished his lunch and then went outside, where he again spoke with reporters.]

I hit the one. It was on the fly. And the other one I hit at a very long distance. It was almost--but it was a very long distance. I just--it was a good gun. I had a good gun. It was a little Remington with a shorter barrel, three-shot…

Yes, yes. We've got one. We've got the original back at the White House. And they've got an old Governor's picture of me, and another one about 10 years old, unsigned.