Bill Clinton

I think we have to— my main concern is not to allow Somalia to deteriorate to the condition which it was in before the United Nations went there.

The trick is how to do it without in any way rewarding the kind of behavior that we have seen.

I salute him for that.

We recognized the problems of operating in a completely devastated institutional, social, and economic context, as is the case in Somalia.

I think we can still do that, not lose control of how we're controlling the benefit costs and standardizing information that needs to be required from providers.

We're going to get utilization review firms and the government out of the back offices of doctors, and allow them to provide care without worrying about punitive responses to potential quality problems.

We are going to wrap up, but before we do, I would like to ask all of you to give all of these people who came up here and spoke a hand, because they are what this whole thing is about. [Applause] In the weeks and months ahead we are going…

Thank you. Go ahead. [A participant expressed support for NAFTA because the reduction in tariffs would create more jobs.]

Thank you very much. [A participant explained how NAFTA will benefit companies that are helping to alleviate environmental problems in Mexico.]

Good for you. So you don't have--I want to get this straight--you have plants near the Mexican border on the American side; you don't have any intention of moving them. And in fact, you know you're going to hire more people to work there…

Do you have any idea what it will do to your sales? Have you done any estimates on how much it will increase your markets?

That's pretty good, they sell hot sauce to Mexico. I think we ought to clap for that, don't you? [Applause] Canned goods?

So you'll put together 15 or 20 more people, and the rice farmers in my home State of Arkansas will send you rice down here to go out of the Port of New Orleans. That's what you're saying, right?

Tonight I ask you, my fellow Americans, to think about what it is we would like our children and our grandchildren to say we did with this moment in history.

Everything that we have done is a part of that.

We are trying not to turn this into a system where the Government has to regulate it all or the Government tries to just fix the prices.

We're going to conquer them.

Most all Americans get to pick their doctors.

You're either going to have to drop your coverage altogether with all the attendant insecurities and anxieties and problems that presents for your employees, or your costs are going to go through the roof.

We should produce the policy that will reduce illegal immigration, keep legal immigration going, and make Americans feel better about the diversity.

We will provide more incentives to the medical schools of our country to produce more primary care physicians, more family doctors, if you will.

It is criminal for us to leave another decade where we quadruple the national debt and we load it onto our kids.

If we can imagine it, it can happen.

Every study shows, the National Small Business United study shows, that the vast majority of small business people will come out way ahead economically on this.

We're the only advanced country in the world that doesn't have a system to provide a basic health care package to all of its citizens.