Bill Clinton

No, it's distracting you, it's not distracting—

I'm going to give a speech to the joint session February 17th, and we'll lay out my program then.

Of all the people I've ever worked with in my life, she's better at organizing and leading people from a complex beginning to a certain end than anybody I've ever worked with in my life. And that's what I want done here.

I was very impressed by them.

No, I'm going to go out for a jog later. And I'm going to do a little work, and I'm trying to get the house acclimated, get organized.

I did some work on it yesterday afternoon and had several extended conversations with people about potential nominees and gave my staff some instructions to go do some work on three or four folks.

I think we should leave it between the two of us, but it was a very generous note and a very encouraging one. Attorney General Nomination

I'm sad about it. But it wasn't agonizing. I'm sad about it, and I take full responsibility, as I said in my statement, for the way the evaluation was done. I still have a very high regard for her. She is an extraordinary person. And I…

Two hung in there to be represented tonight. [Laughter] I'm very sorry about what happened yesterday, but I'm glad you're all here today. Anybody want to sing me a quick song? Hillary Clinton. Let's start in order.

I basically very much believe in teamwork.

America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.

We need each other, and we must care for one another.

We must meet challenges abroad as well as at home.

My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.

Our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands.

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand more responsibility from all.

Our Nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of unity.

We rededicate ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of challenge.

The American people have summoned the change we celebrate today.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who…

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.