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the next 4 years as a high school education have opportunity for all, responsibility from is today, with a tax credit for those 2 years all, and a sense of community. and a tax deduction for all college tuition up We are all in this fight for the future to- to $10,000 a year. gether. I don’t want to be told, ‘‘You’re on And we ought to have the right kind of your own.’’ I don’t want to look at people tax cut. The right kind of tax cut is one that’s and say, ‘‘You’re on your own.’’ I believe targeted to people who need it, focused on we’re stronger when we join hands and building strong families and educating peo- march into that future together on the right ple so that they’ll be more productive, they’ll track, the right track. Will you help us? Will grow the economy, they’ll be stronger, and you stay with us? Will you fight for victory? is paid for in a balanced budget. That’s what Will we win? I know we will. our tax cut does. Give people tax breaks to Thank you, and God bless you all. Thank go to college. Give people tax reductions if you. they have young children. Give people an ex- panded IRA that they can withdraw from for NOTE: The President spoke at 1:40 p.m. at the a first time or health care or education needs. old C&O train station prior to departure on the But don’t give people a big tax cut that costs 21st Century Express. In his remarks, he referred over $500 billion that will blow a big hole to Gov. Gaston Caperton of West Virginia; Char- lotte Pritt, Democratic candidate for Governor of in the deficit, raise interest rates, raise your West Virginia; Marilyn Milne, president, Boomer- mortgage rates, your credit card payments, ang Medical Transcription, Inc.; Sharon Rocke- your car payments, and require even worse feller, wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller; Mayor Jean cuts than the ones we vetoed last year. That’s Dean of Huntington, WV; Chuck Chambers, co- the wrong way. No U-turn. Stay on the right chair, West Virginia State Democratic Party Exec- track. Go forward into the future. That’s the utive Committee; former Gov. Hulett C. Smith right way. of West Virginia; and Cecil Roberts, president, I have said a thousand times, but I’ll say United Mine Workers of America. A tape was not available for verification of the content of these one more time, I know we still have prob- remarks. lems. There are still too many people who want work who don’t have it. We’ve got to give all those people that we’re saying—on Remarks in Ashland, Kentucky welfare—there’s no more guaranteed check anymore. We’ve got to make a lot more August 25, 1996 Marilyn Milnes because they’re entitled to The President. Thank you, thank you, work if we’re going to cut them off a check thank you very much. for their kids. We’ve got to give them the Audience members. Four more years! jobs. We’ve got to create the jobs. Four more years! Four more years! I know there are still people who have The President. Thank you, thank you very worked hard and don’t have a pay raise. And much. Thank you very much. You have made we’ve got to give those folks the education me very happy today. My daughter, Chelsea, they need and challenge their employers to and I are delighted to be here. Hillary had be responsible when they make a profit to to leave us in West Virginia to go on to her share their income with their employees so hometown of Chicago to make sure every- we can go forward and grow together. I know thing was all warmed up for us. We’re on that. the right track to Chicago, and we’re on the But I will say again, as I have said over right track to the 21st century. and over and over again since 1991: If we I thank Governor Patton for being here. want a country where the American dream I always enjoy seeing the Governor and Mrs. is alive for everybody who will work for it, Patton, and I’m glad your mother is here if we want a country where people are com- today because I want her to hear the Presi- ing together, not being divided, if we want dent say that if every Governor in America a country that is leading the world for peace had as much energy and drive and deter- and freedom and prosperity, we’ve got to mination as Paul Patton we wouldn’t have

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the problems we have today. He has really birthday. I was 35 once. [Laughter] Enjoy got it. it while it lasts. We congratulate you on your I thank Senator Wendell Ford for his hard-won success, and we’re very proud of words and for being here. I also thank the you. And I know your father, State Senator distinguished Congressman from Louisville, Ron Cyrus, is here. We know he is proud Mike Ward, for being here. We also have— of you, too. Thank you very much for coming I know Steve Beshear, the United States Sen- to be with us. ate candidate, and Denny Bowman, a con- I want to thank two of my former col- gressional candidate. And I want you to send leagues for being here, your former Gov- them up there; we need some help. We need ernor, Martha Layne Collins; former Gov- some help. ernor John Y. Brown. Phyllis George Brown, Wendell Ford was very kind in what he thank you for being here. I thank the chair said about me, but let me tell you, if it hadn’t of the Kentucky Democratic Party, Bob been for Wendell Ford, if he had gone the Babbage, and all the other Democrats who other way, we would not have voted in 1993 are here. I thank the bands that played, Un- to reduce the deficit, get the interest rates limited Tradition and the Mountain Opry. I down and get the economy going again. The wish I had been here. All the band members deficit is 60 percent lower than it was when and the cheerleaders from Boyd, Greenup, I took office; it’s gone down 4 years in a and Pike Counties, thank you all for being row—4 years in a row—for the first time— here. listen to this—the deficit has gone down 4 I thank the folks in West Virginia who years in a row for the first time since before came with me and the folks from Ohio, in- the Civil War, in the 1840’s. A President has cluding former Congressman and Congress- done that, thanks to Wendell Ford and man-to-be, Ted Strickland. I’m glad he is thanks to Mike Ward. And we did it while here today. continuing to invest in education, in environ- Folks, most of all, I want to thank Kevin mental protection, and protecting Medicare Gunderson. I want to thank Kevin Gunder- and Medicaid. son not only for what he said but most impor- And then, when our friends in the opposi- tant, for who he is, for not giving up when tion won the Congress, and they wanted to he was down and out, for refusing to give remove the guarantee of Medicaid that helps up on a productive life, for being determined middle class people with families in nursing to stick up for what is good and worthy in homes, that helps middle class families with all people and to make the most of the abili- people with disabilities in them, that helps ties God has left him, which as you can see poor children and pregnant women, when here were many, indeed. We thank you, sir, they wanted to cut back on education when and God bless you. we should be investing more, when they You know, I was up the road in Hunting- wanted to cut back drastically on our ability ton, West Virginia just a minute ago, and I to protect the environment, when they want- was shaking hands with the crowd. And this ed to give corporations permission to take little girl came up to me and she said, ‘‘Did $15 billion out of their workers’ pension you really call Kerri Strug at the Olympics?’’ funds, when they wanted to raise taxes on I said, ‘‘I sure did.’’ She said, ‘‘Did she really millions of the lowest income working people come to the White House?’’ I said, ‘‘She sure in this country, Wendell Ford and Mike did.’’ I said, ‘‘Not only that, she and her fam- Ward said, no, and made my veto stand up. ily came to New York to my birthday party.’’ We said, no, and I thank them for it. She said, ‘‘Really?’’ I said, ‘‘You like her, Thank you, Billy Ray Cyrus, for coming. don’t you?’’ And do you know what she said? My daughter is glad she made the trip now. She said, ‘‘I got it on tape.’’ [Laughter] [Laughter] And so are all the rest of you. This little girl was about 8 or 9 years old. When I heard you cheering for him when And I said, ‘‘Well, let me tell you something. he got off the train, I thought I was just sort You save that tape for the rest of your life, of the supporting act. I thought I was sup- and every time something bad happens to posed to go first. [Laughter] Happy 35th you, every time you feel desperate, every

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time you feel troubled, you put that tape in in the right direction because there are peo- the television, and you watch that little girl ple like you everywhere who are working at with her bad ankle do that vault, and you the grassroots level. You have a long history say, ‘I can get up. I can go on. I can do it. here of helping people in your community I can do it.’ ’’ to build a strong future, from the days when Why? Why do we all love the Olympics the Moonlight School opened the first adult so much? Because it’s the way we think life education classes in America to the Boyd ought to be. Everybody gets to show up; no- County School today where Norma Meek body cares about your race, your religion, runs the Family Resource Center, set up by where you’re from. All you got to do is be the 1990 Education Reform Act to give our willing to play by the rules. You can’t get at-risk kids not just something to say no to ahead by cheating. Nobody gets anything by but something to say yes to, positive role breaking their opponent’s ankles or legs. No- models, positive alternatives, positive activi- body gets anywhere by standing up in front ties, to give our kids a future. of a microphone and telling you what terrible I want to salute another citizen of this area, people their opponents are. You’ve got to Dr. Mary Pauline Fox, who has dedicated reach down deep inside and do something her entire life to bring health care to the peo- good, just as good as you can do. And because ple of rural Pike County. That’s what we of that, even the people that don’t get medals need. come out way ahead. That’s the way life My strategy for the 21st century is simple: ought to be. We know that’s the way life opportunity for all, responsibility from all, ought to be. and a stronger American community where Folks, 4 years ago I came to Kentucky be- we know we have to go forward together and cause I was worried about our country. We everybody has a role to play. With all respect had the slowest job growth since the Depres- to my opponent, I think it does take a village sion. We had stagnant wages. We had rising to raise a child, strengthen a family, build crime. We had neglected challenges. And our a community, and build a country. country seemed to be drifting and dividing What are the results? Look at the last toward the 21st century. And I had a vision week. In just the last week, over strong oppo- that I thought we owed it to our children sition, we finally got an increase in the mini- to pass along, a vision of America in the year mum wage for 10 million hard-working 2000 where every child has a chance to live Americans. And that bill included tax relief out their dreams as long as they’re respon- for 90 percent of the small businesses in this sible citizens, a country where we are bound country if they invest more in their business. together, across the lines that divide us, by And it made it easier for people in small busi- our shared values. nesses to take out retirement plans for them- I don’t want us to be divided like these selves and their employees. It was a wonder- other countries, by race and religion and all ful bill. It gave a $5,000 tax credit to any these other things. I want us to say, ‘‘If you American family that will adopt a child. It believe in the Constitution, the Declaration removed the barriers to cross-racial adoption. of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and if That minimum wage bill was pro-work, pro- you show up for work every day, you’re our business, pro-family, pro-America. I’m proud kind of person, and we’re for you and we’re we fought for it, and I’m proud we won it. going forward together.’’ We signed the Kennedy-Kassebaum And I wanted our country to be the strong- health care reform bill that says, ‘‘If you lose est force for peace and freedom and prosper- your job or somebody in your family gets sick, ity way into the 21st century. That’s what I you can’t have your health insurance taken wanted. And 4 years later I come back to away from you anymore. You can’t be denied tell you, we are on the right track to the 21st the right to health insurance.’’ Twenty-five century. million Americans can be helped by that. We are on the right track, because Ameri- We passed a welfare reform plan that says cans from all walks of life are doing what we are going to go from welfare to work and you are doing here in Ashland. We are going give people the dignity of work so they can

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raise their children not in dependency but doing jobs within a decade that have not in independence. It was the right thing to been invented yet, that have not even been do. imagined yet. But we have to be ready for But this is the last of the big story. You that future. heard what Senator Ford said. In 1993 every We have laid the basis: we have got the single solitary Republican in the Congress unemployment rate down; we’ve got our eco- voted against our economic reform plan. nomic house in order; we’ve got the crime They said it would increase the deficit. They rate coming down 4 years in a row; we’ve said it would cripple the economy. It cut the got the welfare rolls coming down. We’ve got deficit by 60 percent. It drove interest rates a more peaceful world where there are no down. We continued to invest in education, nuclear missiles pointed at the people of the the environment, technology, and our future. United States since the dawn of the nuclear And guess what? Four years later, 10 mil- age. We are moving in the right direction. lion new jobs; 4.4 million new homeowners; But we have more to do. You know as well 10 million Americans who have refinanced as I do, right here in Kentucky there are still their homes at lower interest rates; 12 million people that want to work who don’t have Americans who have taken a little time off jobs. And you know as well as I do we cannot from work when a child was born or a parent afford to let this welfare reform bill be just was sick under the family leave law without a budget cutting measure that leaves poor losing their jobs; 1.3 million Americans fewer folks and their kids out on the street. We’ve on welfare; a 40 percent increase in child got to get them jobs to do. You can’t tell support enforcement collections. We are people to go to work unless there’s work to moving in the right direction, on the right go to. track. And you know as well as I do that there We protected the pensions of 40 million are still people right here in Kentucky that people. And then when they tried to say, are working harder and harder, and they still ‘‘You can raid the pension funds of workers,’’ haven’t gotten a raise. And we know that part we said, ‘‘No, no, no, we’ve been down that of that is a challenge to the business commu- road before. We just protected them. You nity to share their profits fairly with their em- can’t have that $15 billion. It belongs to the ployees, but part of it is a challenge to work- workers of America and to their retirement.’’ ing people to upgrade their education and Fifty million Americans are breathing clean- skills so they can earn more money in this er air. We cleaned up more toxic waste tough global economy. dumps in 3 years than they did in 12. We And I am committed—I am committed to are moving in the right direction, on the right putting education at the top of America’s track to the 21st century. agenda and keeping it there for the next 4 And what I want to say to you today is years until everybody can benefit from the as I make my way to Chicago and I go to global economy. the towns just like this one in the heartland I want to see every classroom in Kentucky of America, I’m doing this for a reason. I and the United States, every single one, want you to know that every day for 4 years hooked up to the information superhighway I have gone to that Oval Office and thought so every kid in the poorest hill and holler about you and what would make it easier for of Arkansas or Kentucky can have access to you to have strong families, good jobs, safe the same information as the children in the streets, a clean environment, good schools, wealthiest schools in America. We can do it and a bright future. in 4 years. And I want you to fight our fight for the I want ours to be the first administration 21st century. Folks, this next several years ever to help the public school districts of this can be the brightest time in American his- country invest in their school facilities to up- tory. There will be more opportunities for grade those facilities to give people good, our children to live out their dreams and modern places to go to school with all the adults to live out their dreams than ever be- latest developments. If the poor districts fore. Our kids in this crowd today will be need help, they ought to get it. If the over-

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crowded district needs help, they ought to hear, what you see in the movies, what you get it. We proposed to increase school con- hear anywhere else, they are dangerous. struction by 25 percent over the next 4 years, They’re not just illegal; they will kill you. and we can do it under our program. We have taken those assault weapons off And most important, more important than the street, and we’ve passed the Brady bill. anything else, I want to give you a country Not a single hunter in Kentucky or Arkansas in which 2 years of education after high has missed a deer season or any other kind school becomes as universal in 4 years as high of season. Not anybody lost a gun. Not any- school today by giving every American family body. that needs it a $1,500 refundable tax credit So all that stuff they told you back in ’94 for the cost of community college tuition for when they were winning the Congress, saying 2 years. And giving those same families up we were going to get your rifle and all that, to $10,000 in tax deduction for the cost of it was a big load of bull then, and it’s a big any kind of education after high school. And load of bull now. The difference is now you giving unemployed workers a skills grant know it because you have had 2 years, and worth over $2,000 to take wherever they you still got your gun. But I’ll tell you who need to get the training to go back to work doesn’t have a gun: 60,000 felons, fugitives, at a better wage. This is the America I want and stalkers could not buy a handgun be- to build, and I want you to help me build cause of the Brady bill, and we’re safer be- it. cause of it. I want you to support me in helping to But our friends in the other party, they create jobs not only for people on welfare don’t like this 100,000 police program, and but for single men and for others who are unemployed who need the jobs. I want you they don’t like the safe and drug-free schools to support me in building on health care re- program. She’s talking about one over form and saying, ‘‘Okay, we have now said there—they voted against the safe and drug- you can’t lose your insurance if you have free school program. Then they tried to get been sick or you changed jobs.’’ Now we have rid of it. They voted against the 100,000 po- got to say, ‘‘If you’re unemployed for a long lice program, and then they tried to get rid time, you run out of money, we’re going to of it. And they’re still trying to do away with help you. We’re going to guarantee people it. health insurance if they’re unemployed for I tell you, this is crazy. If the crime rate’s 6 months.’’ We need to help more people going down, we need to put more police offi- keep their health, not lose it and their bank- cers on the street, not back up and undo what roll as well. we’ve done to get it down. It’s not low Let me just say one other thing. In honor enough yet. Do you think it’s low enough? of this fine, fine man that introduced me, Then I say, finish the job and stop those that I want you to help me finish our commitment want to turn it around. Let’s go. to putting 100,000 police on the street. You And the last thing I want to say is this, know, it wasn’t so very long ago when it was folks, we have a lot of other challenges—I’ll rare for me to meet anyone—anyone—who talk more about them at the convention— thought we could lower the crime rate. Peo- challenges at home, challenges abroad. I’ve ple just took it for granted that the cities were got a lot of other ideas about what to do in dangerous and the little towns in the country the next 4 years. But let’s look at the big were about to get that way. People just took picture. We’ve got to keep this economy it for granted that we were going to have going until everybody has a chance to benefit rising crime rates from now on. from it. We have had 4 years with the crime rate Now, we’ve proved that we can get the going down. And it’s not a mystery. More deficit down and grow the economy. I told police in community policing. More police you this would produce 8 million jobs. It pro- officers in our safe and drug-free schools pro- duced 10. I told you we’d cut the deficit in gram in the school, telling these kids that half. We cut it by more than 60 percent. drugs are dangerous. We don’t care what you We’re doing the right thing.

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Now, we ought to give Americans a tax were not for the interest we’re paying on the cut who need it, and it ought to be targeted debt run up in the 12 years before I took to childrearing and child care and education office when they quadrupled the debt with and to expanded IRA’s that you can withdraw all those tax cut promises. You wouldn’t your- from for a first-time homebuying or health self in this beautiful town of Ashland—you insurance policy or to pay for education. I’m wouldn’t yourself go down to the local bank for all that. We can afford that kind of tax and borrow money to give yourself a tax cut, cut. And it’d be worth a lot to middle class would you? You wouldn’t do it. Why would hard-working families. you hire somebody else to do something you But we cannot afford to go right back wouldn’t do for yourself? around and take a U-turn and make the same We cannot blow up the debt. We can give mistake we made before. And that’s what the other side is proposing, a tax cut 5 times as you a tax cut. It will help you raise your kids. big as mine that they don’t know how they’re It will help you get an education. It will help going to pay for. And you know what will you with health care and home buying. And happen; it will blow a hole in the deficit. That we can afford it and still balance the budget means higher interest rates. That means and protect our priorities and build on the whatever you get in the tax cut, you’ll pay future. right back in your mortgage payment, your And the last thing I want to say is this: car payment, your credit card payment. It All this comes down to whether we’re going also means even bigger cuts in Medicare, to meet our challenges and protect our val- Medicaid, education, and the environment ues, whether you believe we can create op- than I vetoed when they shut the Govern- portunity and have more responsibility, and ment down. I didn’t put up with it before, whether we can go forward together, or I won’t put up with it again. It is not the whether you’re better off with somebody tell- right thing for America. ing you, ‘‘The Government’s the problem. Now, you look at that train there. If you It’s not yours. You’re on your own. Have a were on that train going to your destination, nice life. Here’s a little money.’’ which is the 21st century, the last thing in I believe you know from your life in this the wide world you’d want to do is to make great, grassroots, God-fearing American a U-turn just because you heard a pretty song community that we are all in this together. somewhere along the way. [Laughter] That’s We had better lock arms and go forward to- a pretty song, that big old tax cut. But it’s like that ‘‘Contract.’’ Do you remember their gether and that when America is together ‘‘Contract?’’ They never did say word one and we’re positive and we act like this fine about it in San Diego, did they? I didn’t police officer and local government official, watch it, but somebody told me they listened and we act like that wonderful young girl in intently for 4 days for their record, and they her Olympic championship, America always never talked about their record and their wins. Let’s stay on the right track for the 21st ‘‘Contract.’’ Do you remember, it sounded century. so pretty in 1994? And then the con- God bless you. sequences came in in ’95 and ’96. And, thank goodness for America, Wendell Ford and his NOTE: The President spoke at 4:05 p.m. at friends were there to stand up and say no. Riverfront Park. In his remarks, he referred to But if you give them the White House and Gov. Paul E. Patton of Kentucky, his wife, Judi, the Congress, there won’t be anybody to say and his mother, Irene; musician Billy Ray Cyrus; no. And they’ll get to do their U-turn, and Ashland City Councilman Kevin Gunderson, a it will sound pretty. And then you’ll have to former police officer, disabled in the line of duty, deal with the consequences, high interest who introduced the President; and U.S. Olympic rates, slow growth, and exploding debt. gymnast Kerri Strug. A tape was not available for Let me just tell you one other thing. The verification of the content of these remarks. budget of the United States of America would be in surplus today—this day—if it

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Interview With Wolf Blitzer, Jill stops I’ve been making for months and Dougherty, and Claire Shipman of months and months, going back a year, that the Cable News Network the one thing that’s not going right in this August 25, 1996 country is that the drug use rate among young people is going up. Teenage Drug Use I don’t blame them for it—Senator Dole Mr. Blitzer. Mr. President, first of all, and Mr. Gingrich—even though I think thank you so much for spending some time they’re partly responsible for not supporting with us. my safe and drug-free schools program and You’ve asked the American public to give the other education, prevention, and treat- you credit for your achievements. The budg- ment programs I’ve asked them for. But this et deficit has gone down; there have been is a very complicated thing. It’s obviously millions of new jobs created; the crime rate going on in other countries, and it obviously has gone down. But are you also willing to started—all the experts say it began in 1990 accept responsibility for the dramatic in- with a change in attitudes about how dan- crease in drug use among young people since gerous these drugs are. We’ve done—it is you’ve taken office? true that we cut back the drug office in the The President. Well, I’m certainly willing White House, but I don’t think anybody be- to say that our best efforts have not turned lieves 100 people in a Washington bureauc- it around, and I’m very concerned about it. racy control what happens in drug use. I talked about this in the State of the We have been more aggressive at interdic- Union Address. I’ve been telling the Amer- tion than previous administrations. We have ican people for over a year that—myself, be- tried to support—we have, in fact, supported fore we had a study—I’ve been making full more school-based programs like the disclosure here that we had a crime rate D.A.R.E. program for law enforcement offi- going down but a youth crime rate going up; cials. I have tried to be as active as I could we had a drug use rate going down but a in lifting up these programs that work at the youth drug use going up. Now, finally, the community level and in helping people. But youth crime rate has started to go down. So whatever we’ve done has not worked, and about the only trend in all of America, wheth- we all need to face that. But I don’t know er it’s economic or social, that’s going in the that placing political blame helps us very wrong direction is this youth drug use. And much. If anybody has got a better idea, I’d it began, apparently, with a change in atti- be happy to look at it. We have got to do tudes about 1990. The patterns, interestingly something to turn it around. enough, are the same in Canada and in sev- But it’s clear—if you just talk to young eral European countries where both drug people, it’s clear that there has been in the and tobacco use are going up among young last 5 years or so a real change in attitudes people who either don’t think it’s dangerous among a core of young people about whether or think they can take the risks. And I’m very, it’s dangerous or not, and that seems to be very concerned about it. right at the root of what the problem is. Mr. Blitzer. Well, the accusation that Bob Dole and many other Republicans, of course, 1996 Election make is that someone was asleep on the job Ms. Dougherty. Mr. President, in his ac- during these past 31⁄2, 4 years while there’s ceptance speech at the Republican Conven- been this explosion in drug use among young tion, Bob Dole indicted your administration people. for what he called, and I’ll quote here, ‘‘a The President. Well, that’s not true, be- corps of the elite who never grew up, never cause we were not asleep on the job. And did anything real, never sacrificed, never suf- that’s why I’ve been talking about it. Like fered, and never learned.’’ Do you look upon I said, I’ve been talking about it a lot longer that as a generational attack or an attack on than they have; they waited for a study and you personally, and how do you answer it? an election season. I have been telling the The President. Probably a little bit of American people in all these community both. And a lot of it is just pure politics. Just

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