Bill Clinton

And finally, I want to make sure that we make a college education available to every single solitary person in this country who is willing to work for it. I want the first 2 years of education after high school, at least a community…

Number two, I want to make sure we connect every classroom and library in every school in America to the information superhighway by the year 2000 so that for the first time in American history, for the very first time in American history…

Even then, they won't pay for it. And the deficit will go up again. And that means higher interest rates and all those bad things. Now, let me ask you a question, just a little old question we might ask at a country crossroads at home…

Let us be worthy of this moment in history, and let us meet these challenges together.

And then they still won't be able to pay for it so then they'll have to increase the deficit, which means higher interest rates and a weaker economy. So we get the worst of both worlds. So I say, I want you to help us build a bridge to the…

I want us to have an education system in which by the year 2000, in Covington, Kentucky, and every--now, wait a minute--in Covington, Kentucky, in Covington, Tennessee, Covington, Massachusetts, in every Covington in America, every single…

Folks, I love seeing all of you here. I want to get out here and shake a few hands. But I want to ask you one more time. We want a bridge that's big enough, strong enough, and wide enough for everybody to walk across together. Will you…

Will you help us balance the budget without doing what our friends in the opposition want to do, without hurting Medicare, Medicaid, our commitment to education, and the environment? Will you help us do that? Audience members. Yes!

Will you help us close two-thirds of the toxic waste dumps so our kids live near parks and not poison in the next 4 years? Audience members. Yes!

Will you help us make 2 years of college education as universal as a high school education is now in the next 4 years? Audience members. Yes!

Will you help us send Steve Beshear and Houston Gordon to the United States Senate and Steve Null to the Congress to help us build that bridge to the 21st century? Audience members. Yes!

Thank you for coming out. Thank you for waiting. I want to thank the mayors of both these communities. I'm glad to be in Kentucky and Tennessee, and I want to thank all of you who worked hard on this event. I see a lot of work has been…

God bless you. Stay with us and we will make the kind of future you and your children deserve. Thank you. We're delighted to be here.

Will you help us for 68 days to talk to your friends and neighbors about going into the future instead of going back? Will you do that? Audience members. Yes!

But I can say this: There's never been any attempt to raise any money with the promise that you can spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom. I have invited people who have been helpful to me to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom, but it…

Well, the people who sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom are people I personally invite, who have been my friends, and a lot of them have supported me. But I don't think any President has made a habit of inviting his opponents to sleep in the…

Look, here's a country with a $1.5 trillion budget, an annual income of over $6 trillion. So you talk about a party raising and spending $150 million in a year and a half for an election, it sounds like a lot of money. Against that, it…

And the little things that touch them. Ms. Soren. You captured the imagination of young people in 1992, along with their votes. I saw young people at the MTV Inaugural Ball weeping when you arrived. Maybe their expectations were too high…

I don't have any plans to do that. I don't say I won't communicate with him. My wife and I and the Vice President all called him and just had a purely personal conversation. But this campaign is now the product of a record we have made and…

No, because we have a good team. And everybody had a role to play, and we all agreed early on on a strategy. And then when we--we had a decisionmaking process which I think is very good, which I'm just going to keep in place. I'm going to…

I don't plan to do that, no. But we do have a good team, and we all work together. Ms. Soren. You're not worried at all with him not being there?

No. Let me just take one other example. Ms. Soren. The only reason I ask is because people are wondering if you're the same person they elected in '92.

Oh, they're using it, but all I said was--I was just trying to make the point that I had never--when I answered the question I told the truth. I just told the truth about the question. Ms. Soren. It was a joke?

That was true. Ms. Soren. Do you wish that you had answered differently? Because Republicans are planning on using this to attack you.

Thank you. Antidrug Efforts Ms. Soren. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this on your bus tour. In your speech last night you said that drugs were wrong and deadly. But on MTV a couple of years ago, someone asked you if you…