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Remarks at the America’s Hope, than in any previous point in history. And Arkansas’ Pride Luncheon in Little this Ford plant in New Jersey was making Rock, Arkansas trucks being sold in Latin America. And I June 23, 1995 never realized it before, but there was McLarty always thinking about what it’s Thank you so much. Thank you for being going to be like 20 years from now when he’s here. Thank you for being in such a good running all those Ford dealerships again. frame of mind. And thank you for making [Laughter] You can be very proud of the Hillary and Al and Tipper and me feel so leadership he has given to our country, and wonderful today. I thank him for his long friendship. And You know, I’ve always kind of resented Al Bruce Lindsey, Marsha Scott, all the other Gore for being a little smarter than I am and people from Arkansas, and the people who knowing a little more about various things. run this office, they have enabled me to try And now he’s gotten funnier than I am. I and stay in touch with you in times when really—[laughter]. it has not always been easy. And Carol Rasco I thank you, Maurice Mitchell and Skip is not here; she’s getting ready for our eco- Rutherford and Jay Dunn and Doug nomic conference in the Pacific Northwest. Hatterman and all the others who worked. But I see some people here particularly in- I have to mention one person I know is not volved in health care and social services I here and another person I have not yet seen. know call her. I thank them for the work I know a lot of people worked hard on this, they’ve done to make it possible for us to but I know that my longtime friend Merle try to stay in touch with one another. Peterson, who’s away, and Jimmy Red Jones I also want to say a special word of thanks sat in a room and called a lot of you and to Congresswoman Blanche Lambert Lin- harassed you until you bought tickets to this. coln and Congressman Ray Thornton. And [Laughter] And I want to thank them and congratulations, Congressmen, to you and to all the rest of the committee for the work our Senators and to our Governor on Red that they did. River. Nice work. Truman Arnold is very I would like to thank Mack McLarty and happy he can keep working for the—[ap- all those from Arkansas who work in the ad- plause]—Truman Arnold woke up this morn- ministration, as well as those who work here ing thinking he could keep working for our in the Arkansas office who’ve tried to give reelection and for our party now. you a lifeline through the fog that Washing- We wish you well, Congressman Thornton. ton can become. I thank them for represent- I wish you weren’t retiring, but whatever you ing me. I want to say a special word of thanks decide to do, I imagine you will make a good to Mack for all the many things he’s done show of it. You always have. And you’ve really over the last 21⁄2 years. I got a vivid picture served our State well, and you’ve served our of one of them yesterday when we were in Nation well, and we thank you for that. New Jersey at a Ford plant, which, doubtless, I want to say, as Hillary did, a special word had made various vehicles that the McLarty of thanks to Senator Bumpers and Senator dealerships had sold over the years. But I Pryor. They have fulfilled a lot of roles that couldn’t help thinking, you know, Mack has maybe on some occasions they would rather basically become the country’s point person not have done in the last 21⁄2 years. And in all of our developing economic and politi- we’ve had some rough spots in the road. cal relationships with Latin America, which We’ve had some ups and downs, but they have expanded by more in the last 21⁄2 years have always, always, always been there. And

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in very personal ways that will probably never departed mother, is that in the last 21⁄2 years become fully known or appreciated, I can tell we have opened up to women in the services you that I am profoundly grateful to both 260,000 positions previously denied them in of them. the service of their country. And I’m very I saw Dale on television the other night proud of it, and the military is very proud speaking to the Small Business Conference, of it. talking about the importance of balancing the I said that last comment, and the Vice budget and doing it in a humane way and President was up here giving our record and the right way. And a lot of those Republicans it reminded me about a week ago, maybe were really listening to him in ways that only 2 weeks ago now, we had an event at the he can communicate. I think of all the times Treasury Department. And we were an- when David has taken the floor of the Senate nouncing one of our continuing Al Gore ge- to try to restore just a little bit of humanity nius moves to reinvent the Government and and sanity to a national political debate that make it easier to deal with. And this one had has gotten way too out of hand too often in to do with the fact that next year, in 32 States, the last 2 years, and I thank him for that. people can file their taxes, State and Federal And let me also say I am especially glad together, electronically, no paper, no hassle, to see Governor and Mrs. Tucker here today file them both together. We’ll distribute it, and especially grateful for the reception you we’ll do all the work. And we always try to gave them. As an Arkansan, I felt exactly the have a real person like one of you at one same way. And thank you, Governor, for of these announcements to explain how this being here. We’re proud of you. Thank you. will actually change people’s lives. I might also note that the last time I So, it was just before the Small Business checked, the unemployment rate in Arkansas Conference started, and we got this John is down to 4.1 percent, which is—after what Deere dealer from west Texas come who we suffered all those years, that’s another happened to be a supporter of mine, prob- reason to rejoice. ably the only person in the whole county— You know, I was listening to the Vice Presi- [laughter]—there he was. But anyway, he ran dent go through that whole litany, and I have a good-sized John Deere dealership, and he to say I’m also especially indebted to the peo- got up there and he said—I got so tickled— ple who have spoken here before me, to Tip- he said—he brought all the paper that he’d per for all the work she’s done in mental been using on his taxes and he said, ‘‘I can health and for the courageous and sometimes throw all this away, and it’s great.’’ And he lonely battles she always wages within the ad- explained how much money he was going to ministration to remind all of us that that’s save, but he said, ‘‘You know,’’ he said, ‘‘you a very important part of health care, and to fellows have been doing a great job of re- Tipper and to Hillary for the work they’ve inventing Government. What you need to do done to try to make sure we increase our is reinvent communication because it ain’t emphasis on women’s health concerns. getting out to the rednecks that I sell John And I was very proud of Hillary yesterday Deeres to.’’ [Laughter] in particular. She took me along, and I spoke You know, some nights I watch the news to a remarkable event in front of the Arling- and I feel like that old country song, ‘‘They ton Cemetery yesterday where we broke Changed Everything About Me But My ground, long overdue, on America’s first me- Name.’’ [Laughter] That’s beginning to morial for the 1.8 million women who have change as well. I want to have—for just a worn the uniform of our country in military moment I want to have a serious conversa- service. One of the things that I am quite tion. The Vice President has outlined a great proud of that almost nobody knows—there deal of what we have done—and I use the are a lot of achievements of this administra- word ‘‘we’’ in the largest sense. One of them, tion that fall into that category—one of the our proudest achievements, has very little to things that I’m very proud of that almost no- do with me except that I made it possible, body knows, that I think is part of the endur- and I think the history books will reflect that ing influence of my wife and my wonderful Al Gore was the most influential and effec-

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tive Vice President of the United States in dropping in almost every major city in Amer- the history of our Republic through the 21st ica. That’s the good news. And I could give century. you 50 other examples of good news. We had We were at the Small Business Con- the biggest expansion of trade opportunities ference the other day; we hauled out 16,000 in our country in the last 2 years that we Federal regulations that we were getting rid have had in a generation, maybe ever. of because of the reinventing Government But underneath that, it seems that every task force: cutting half the regulations of the opportunity has within it the possibility of Small Business Administration, 40 percent of something new going wrong. Crime rate goes the regulations of the Department of Edu- down, but the arbitrary rate of violence cation, dramatically changing the way the Oc- among teenagers goes up, giving us chilling cupational Safety and Health Administration feelings about what the crime rate might be is going to work, reducing the paperwork like in 10 or 15 years. And more and more burdens of the Environmental Protection and more young kids are just being kind of Agency by 25 percent, setting up a hotline left alone out there to raise themselves, so that if a small business person calls the struggling to figure out what to do, stuck in EPA now, that person cannot be fined if he home environments, community environ- or she is calling for help to try to figure out ments, and school environments that aren’t how to solve a problem. likely to help them to turn around the chal- These are important changes in the way lenges they face. our Government relates to people. But I have All this wonderful technology and this eas- to tell you that what is going on in America ily accessible information has its dark under- today is more than just whether this adminis- side. You can get on the Internet now and tration is achieving things that are or are not tap into one of these fanatic extremists, and known about. This is a period of deep and they will explain to you how you, too, can profound change in the whole world and in make a bomb just like the one that blew up this country, the way we work, the way we the Federal building in Oklahoma City. The live, the conditions in which we raise our explosion of technology means that a radical children, the opportunities available to us, religious group in Japan can figure out how and the challenges confronting us. They’re to get a little bitty vial of gas and walk into different. And all of us are the product of a subway and break it open and kill a bunch our own experiences. I tell everybody that of totally innocent people and put hundreds works at the White House all the time, espe- of others in the hospital. cially young people who see things they don’t So you see the point I’m trying to make: understand, I keep telling everybody we all There is so much good in the world, so much see the world through the prism of our own new possibility, but the Scripture tells us that experience. Even our imaginations are lim- the darkness that is in the human soul will ited by what we have known and felt and be with us until the end of time, and those seen. dark forces are finding new expressions as And yet, all these things are happening well. And we’re all sitting around here trying around us, some utterly wonderful and some to figure out how to make sense of this and utterly horrible that go beyond our ability what to do, so that what is really going on even to imagine a resolution of. A lot of good in Washington, which is confusing to people, things, the end of the cold war, the growth is not much different than what’s going on of the information age, the fact that a kid inside a lot of people’s heads, which is con- in the most remote mountain school in Ar- fusing to people. And it’s because it is really kansas can now hook into an Internet which new. will pull information out of a library in Aus- I am proud of the fact that this administra- tralia, just for example, now, these are won- tion negotiated agreements, which means derful things. And we see all these things, that there are no nuclear weapons pointed and it’s just staggering it’s so wonderful. We at the children of Arkansas since the dawn see a lot of our old problems appear to be of the nuclear age. I’m proud of that. But getting better. The crime rate as a whole is the paradox is—let me just give you the para-

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dox—the paradox is a year or so ago, Hillary ade to turn it around, but it would be re- and I went to Riga, Latvia, to celebrate the warded. withdrawal of Russian troops there for the And I’m convinced that everybody in this first time since before World War II, tens room, in addition to the great leadership we of thousands of people in the street weeping have in our State today, played a role in the with joy, loving America. A poll just came fact that we have an unemployment rate out and said that Bill Clinton was the most below the national average today. It did not popular politician in Latvia. I’m trying to fig- happen overnight. It’s all of you who are en- ure out how to get on the ballot there, give trepreneurs, all of you who built your own them some electoral votes. [Laughter] companies, all of you who came in here and But then we go into—it was a wonderful invested in our State from beyond our State’s survey. It wasn’t me; I was America. It didn’t borders, sometimes from beyond our Na- have anything to do with me; I was the Unit- tion’s borders. It happened—being driven in ed States. But then we go behind closed a direction. doors into a meeting and the first thing they But we basically accepted fundamental as- ask me for is an FBI office. Why? Because sumptions. A lot of that is out the window when you rip away the iron hand of com- now. And I want you to try to understand munism and you take out the Russian army— what we’re going through and why some- there is this huge port, the largest city in times it doesn’t seem to make sense when Northern Europe that most people couldn’t you see it over the airwaves. We are debating even find on a map here, that they’re now now really first principles in Washington. For terrified will become a great transit point for example, there’s a significant number of peo- drug trafficking and organized crime of all ple in Congress who believe all of our prob- lems are personal and cultural in nature, and kinds. The most popular thing we’ve done if everybody would just wake up tomorrow in Russia in the last year is not dismantling and behave themselves, we wouldn’t have the nuclear weapons, it’s opening an FBI of- any problems, and therefore, we don’t need fice in Moscow. Why? Because they got rid the Government to do anything, whatever of communism, and they didn’t have things the Government does will only make it like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora- worse. And if we just give you the money tion or the Securities and Exchange Commis- back, everything would be fine, because all sion, so within no time at all, half of their of our problems are personal and cultural. financial institutions were controlled by orga- Now, at a certain level that is true, isn’t nized crime. it? I mean, no matter what we do with the I say this to make a point. We have to go government in Arkansas or Washington, if back deep inside now to our basic values and people won’t behave themselves and do right our basic institutions. And the debates we and make the most of their own lives, nobody are having in Washington now are over fun- can do that for you. That’s something you damental things that we used to take for have to do for yourselves. At some point, no granted. matter how much adversity people face, When I was Governor here, in all the years some people make it, and some don’t. And until the last year when I ran for President, it’s their responsibility. we only had an unemployment rate below On the other hand, if you play the odds, the national average one month, one month. you know that really successful communities, A lot of my legislators are out there. They States, and nations do the best they can to remember how we struggled with that, but make sure that everybody has the best we had a consensus. We disagreed on the chance to make the most of their own lives. details, and we fought at election time, but I don’t see it that way. I don’t think that it’s there was a general consensus that if we either—that it’s an either/or thing, that all made our State more attractive economically of our problems are personal or cultural on and that if we continued to invest in the skills the one hand or political or economic on the of our people, that in the end that strategy other. I think the answer is both. But because would be rewarded. And it might take a dec- things are changing and people are confused,

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the extreme sides of the debate are really balanced this year, right now, because of the being argued out all over again, just as they cuts we’ve already made, were it not for the were literally decades ago to the beginning interest we have to pay just in the 12 years of this century when the excesses of the in- before I showed up up there. That’s how big dustrial revolution were being felt. a problem it is. It erodes our competitive po- Let me give you another example leading sition in world markets. It drives our incomes from that. A debate—we never had that de- down. And it undermines our ability to bor- bate in Arkansas. We never saw any incon- row to invest in the future. sistency between fighting teenage pregnancy You know, there’s a difference between on the one hand and trying to get more re- borrowing money to build a business or buy sponsibility and investing more money in a house and borrowing money to go out to preschool education on the other. The idea eat tonight. There’s a big difference. And was both, right? we’ve got it all mixed up. You can’t tell what Give you another example—a lot of people we’re doing now. So we need to do that. feel flowing from the first debate that since But we also have to realize—I think that the Government only messes things up, the we do have more than one deficit. And at fundamental responsibility of the Govern- the end—in this information age and this ment is to maintain national defense, cut global economy, for us to be cutting edu- taxes, and balance the budget as quickly as cation is like cutting defense at the height possible without regard to the other con- of the cold war. I don’t think it makes any sequences of what’s being done. They hon- sense. estly believe this. This is not a—I’m being, But there is this ideological debate over— I think, fair and accurate. and the third big debate, maybe the most Then there are others who feel that the important one of all, is the one that—there budget deficit is a terrible thing but not the are people who honestly believe that if you only deficit the country has; and that if we think all of our problems are personal and don’t educate our kids and if we don’t at least cultural and moral, if you believe the Gov- take care of our fundamental obligations to ernment can’t do anything right but mess up the elderly people on Medicare who don’t a one-car parade, the only thing it’s supposed have enough money to live on as it is, that to do is national defense, cut taxes, and bal- the country will come apart at the seams ance the budget, then a lot of the same peo- more; and that we have certain common re- ple believe that anyone who disagrees with sponsibilities. And some people think that if them are intrinsically a threat to the Republic we never balance the budget, it’s better to and anything you do to beat them or put keep investing that money. them in a bad light is all right, so that the But I don’t see it that way. I think that politics of demonization, the meanness we ought to balance the budget, because we quotient of our politics, the distortion level never had a permanent deficit before 12 of it has increased quite a bit in recent years. years ago—I mean, 12 years before I took Now, I think it’s good to fight and argue, office—we haven’t had a balanced budget but I think we’re around here after way over since ’69. But in the seventies, all of you will 200 years because, no matter how the argu- remember we had all that stagflation. Oil ments came out, we kept this thing going prices were going crazy, and the reasons for in the middle of the road and going forward, the deficits were largely localized and—we not too far left, not too far right, but always never had a built-in deficit every year, year- forward. And that’s why we’re still around. in and year-out, in this country’s history until But I’m just telling you these are fun- 1981. And we’ve taken it down by a trillion damental debates that are going on so that dollars over a 7-year period since I’ve been it’s no longer the kind of normal debate you in office. see in Washington. Instead of the range of We ought to balance the budget. Next difference being like this, it’s more like this year—we’ll be seeing more money on inter- now. And it’s because of all these changes est on the debt next year than we will spend that are going on in the country and in the on national defense. The budget would be world.

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Let me just give you some specific exam- going to hurt the economy or be burdensome ples because I think it’s a phony debate. I were wrong. It’s an ideological debate. think we need to worry about going forward, Second, the environment: Most people, I now how far we can get out on these ex- believe, here think that we have to be able tremes. I think we need to return to our basic to grow the economy in a way that preserves values. You know, go back and read the Con- the environment so our grandchildren and stitution, the Declaration of Independence. our grandchildren’s grandchildren will still We got together as a Nation because we have Arkansas to live in. And a big part of thought it was self-evident that all people what we define of Arkansas is that. And most were endowed by God with certain inalien- of the time when we fought about the envi- able rights, among them life, liberty, and the ronment when we were—when I was Gov- pursuit of happiness and that it was necessary ernor, we fought over how to achieve that to form governments to pursue these ends. goal and whether the Government was going And our Constitution was created with the too far, the regulations should be done in flexibility to enable us to change to meet the a certain way or another way. But we were challenges of new times and with the iron- fighting over how to achieve that goal. clad guarantees of the Bill of Rights that That is not the debate up there anymore. there were limits beyond which Government The debate is far more fundamental. There could not go in infringing upon the freedoms are people who believe, ‘‘Well, it’s a nice of individuals. And all of our debates, if we’ll thing to preserve the environment, but in the get back to those basic things and the facts, end nobody will ever really let it go down will lead us to a practical solution that will the tubes. And the Government will mess it push us ahead. But I’ll just give you some up. Get the Government out of it. And if the environment is abused in the short run, examples. so what. Somehow the planet will regenerate The family leave law: There were people itself.’’ who were ideologically opposed to the family Let me tell you—a committee of Congress leave law because they said Government just the other day voted to eliminate all con- shouldn’t tell business anything. But the trols on offshore oil drilling in the United truth is that most parents are also workers States, all of them, everywhere, without re- today. Whether you think it’s a good idea or gard to any evidence of how much oil is there a bad idea, whether it’s a single-parent or whether it’s worth the risk or whether household or a two-parent household, most there’s any evidence of safe drilling or what parents are also workers. If you believe that the differences in the areas are or what would the family is the most important institution happen to tourism or what would happen to in our society, on the one hand, and you also retirement or what would happen to any- believe that if we’re not competitive globally, thing. Why? Because they’re ideologically on the other, we’re in deep trouble, then this opposed to the Government having any kind country has no more important objective of partnership at all with the private sector than enabling people to not have to make on this. a false choice. We must enable people to be And that’s just one example. But I’m tell- successful parents and successful workers. ing you, folks, it is an economic as well as That’s why I was for the family leave law. an environmental issue. We’re on our way But not everybody feels this way. That’s to Portland, Oregon, the Vice President and big debate up there. And when you hear this I are, when we leave you. And we’re dealing rhetoric you have to understand that. There with a terrible set of problems up there, are a lot of people—there are honest people where a lot of the timber people want to cut who honestly believe that it was a wrong more timber in the forest, and because the thing to do. waters have been more polluted they’re los- It sure didn’t hurt the economy. We’ve had ing the salmon. And that’s just one example. 6.7 million new jobs since it passed, record I believe we’ve got to find a way to do numbers of new business formations in 1993 both. Our State has used the Nature Conser- and 1994. So all those predictions that it was vancy more than any State in the country,

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I think, to buy land to set aside, because, debate. And so they were even willing to as Will Rogers said, ‘‘They ain’t making no abuse the filibuster process. more of it.’’ And the people who supported Clarence Thomas could have been kept off it were the business people in our State. This the Supreme Court if the Democrats had is a fundamental debate. said, ‘‘Well, we don’t have enough votes to I’ll give you a third example: Dr. Foster. beat him, but we sure got enough votes to Al Gore alluded to him. Dr. Foster. There keep him from coming to a vote.’’ But they are people in Washington, and they were— said, ‘‘No, that would be morally wrong. The they had enough influence to keep his nomi- President has a right to make an appoint- nation from coming to a vote—who believe ment. The committee has a right to make that he is unfit for any public office ever be- the recommendation. And the Senate ought cause he performed a few legal abortions, to vote.’’ But not in this new world. In this and therefore, he should never be considered new world that are no rules except winning for any public service and if the people who and losing, because one side is all good, and wanted to be President in the other party the other side is all bad. If we had had that knew what was good for them, they would attitude for the last 219 years, we wouldn’t vote no. And since we had enough votes to be here today. We wouldn’t be here today. confirm him, they could not even let him So what is to become of us as a people? come to a vote. I ran for this job because I wanted to do Now, here’s a guy, unlike the rest of— two things, two big things: I wanted to re- most of the rest of us—who’s actually done store the American dream. I wanted to get something to try to reduce teen pregnancy, the economy going. I wanted to lift stagnant to try to reduce the number of abortions, and wages and get the jobs coming back into the to try to tell kids on a consistent, disciplined economy and fix the education system so way, who don’t have other role models to people could actually get out of this awful tell them, that they should not have sex be- two-decade slump we’ve been in where even fore they’re married. Here’s a guy who’s ac- when the economic numbers get better, no- tually gone out and organized a program that body ever gets a raise. But I also wanted to was recognized not by me but by my prede- bring the country together. cessor, President Bush, in an organized, dis- Now, the second issue is even more impor- ciplined fashion to tell young people, ‘‘I don’t tant than the first. And it can be a very good care what kind of problems you’ve got, I thing that we are having these big debates don’t care what your peer pressures are. I over fundamental questions. But I want you don’t care what you’re going through. You to understand just how deep and fundamen- have no business having sex. You cannot pro- tal these debates are. mote teen pregnancy, and you ought not to If you look at the budget debate here, I do it to your life. You ought to stay off drugs, applaud the Republicans for being for a bal- stay in school, and do a good job with your anced budget, and I hope all the Democrats life.’’ Here’s a guy who’s ridden country dusty will be, for the reasons I just explained. It roads in Alabama and brought health care is not right for our country to have a perma- to people that they never could have gotten nent deficit. I wasn’t for the amendment be- otherwise. Here’s a man who’s delivered cause we ought to have the right to borrow thousands of babies, and had at least one of when we need to. But we shouldn’t be in his former patients stand up and publicly say, a system of permanent deficits. ‘‘I was going to have an abortion, and he But my budget reflects what I just talked talked me out of it. He talked me out of it.’’ to you about. My budget reflects the idea In other words, here’s a guy who has actu- that we need to keep going forward. So I ally lived what other folks say they believe believe that I’m right. I think we should bal- in. But in this sort of new world that’s taken ance the budget but increase our investment hold up here, he wasn’t politically correct and in education. I think we have to cut the rate pure enough to serve as Surgeon General, at which we’re increasing health expendi- even though he had actually done the things tures but not so much that we’re going to they say they wish to do. This is a profound close down rural hospitals or urban hospitals

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and not so much that we’re going to burden War II. And I gave a speech at the university elderly people who don’t have enough to live there, and there were, I don’t know, 60,000 on as it is and can’t afford to pay a whole people or something in the streets. And then lot more for their health care and shouldn’t everywhere we drove, they were four or five be asked to give up health care. I believe deep waving American flags. And I met all that we ought to cut spending on welfare but these old veterans from World War II who not so much that we don’t invest in child fought with the Americans then, telling me care and basic training so we can actually everything they did and showing me all their move people from welfare to work instead medals, you know. They weren’t waving at of just throwing poor kids in the street. The me, they were waving at America. They were objective of welfare reform should be to help waving at America. people, again, become good workers and You know, everything the Vice President good parents, not just to save money. said—I’m glad I have a chance to play a I believe any tax cut we have should be major role in what we’re doing in the Middle so small it doesn’t require us to cut these East and what we’re doing in Northern Ire- other things and should be focused on the land and what’s happening in Haiti and the people who need it to help them raise their deneutralization of the world—I’m glad kids and educate them. That’s why I pro- about all that. But the only reason I had that posed a tax deduction for the cost of edu- chance is because for a little while in our cation after high school. I think that’s impor- country’s history I get to become all of us, tant. the United States. And I am telling you I’ve And I know if you cut the tax cut back been there. and focus it on education and child rearing There is no country in the world as well and take 10 years instead of 7 to balance the positioned as we are for the next century. budget, then you don’t have to cut education, There is no country—[applause]—because and you don’t have to imperil Medicare and we do have a limited Government that allows Medicaid and you don’t have to go from a the private sector to flourish and entre- welfare reform plan that should be tough on preneurs to do well, but we have enough abil- work but good to children to one that doesn’t ity to work together to solve common prob- have any work and sticks it to kids. It moves lems that we can do that. We have the poten- us ahead. But it’s not an ideologically ex- tial for the right balance and the right flexibil- treme position. It says we have two things ity. we want to do: balance the budget and bring There is no country that is any better posi- our country together and raise incomes and tioned because of our terrific geographic and move forward. And we can do them both. economic and racial, ethnic and religious di- And that’s what’s going on up there now. versity. But unless we learn to how to recover These are big, fundamental questions. both the sense of personal responsibility and I just want to say, in closing, that a lot a sense of appreciation for people who are of what’s happened to you here, a lot of the different from us, unless we learn how to re- outrageous, outrageous things that have been solve our differences without demonizing said about our State and a lot of the lickin’ people and how to look toward the long run, that you’ve taken is a product of the confu- we could squander the most colossal oppor- sion and the disorientation of the times and tunity our country has ever had. the idea that there are no rules and people Because of the way technology works in just sort of flailing around trying to win an- the 21st century, Arkansas can not only have other one to get to tomorrow. That is not a lower unemployment rate than the rest of what made this country great. That is not the country, our people can actually enjoy what made this country great, and it’s not a standard of living equal to that of any peo- what you taught me to do here. ple in the world. And that can happen every- And I just want you to know, the greatest where. But it depends upon whether we can thing that ever happens to me is when I get go back to these first principles and go for- to be all of you. Hillary and I were in Ukraine ward with a sense of balance and mutual re- for the 50th anniversary of the end of World spect.

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At the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lin- was not received in time for publication in the coln said, ‘‘We cannot be enemies. We must appropriate issue. be friends.’’ That is what I say to you. And when you get angry about things you think are happening and when things happen you Statement on the Death of Jonas Salk don’t understand, just remember, this is still June 23, 1995 the greatest country in the world. It is still the greatest country in the world. Hillary and I want to extend our deepest Stand up and fight for what you believe sympathies to the family and friends of Dr. in. But fight against people who want to Jonas Salk, a man whose indefatigable pursuit throw this country way off the track. And of solutions made this world a better place fight for the idea that we can pull together. to live. The victory of this medical pioneer After that Oklahoma City bombing, America over a dreaded disease continues to touch was shaken to its very core. But it threw some many, from the students who study his work of the meanness out of all of us. And it made to the countless individuals whose lives have all of us reexamine where we are. And our been saved by his efforts. His polio vaccine sort of heart and our common sense were opened the door to a society in which good reasserted. After that wonderful young Air health was taken for granted. And, over the Force Captain Scott O’Grady survived 6 hid- last decade, his efforts to find a cure for eous days in Bosnia and was rescued by a AIDS gave us all hope. He was a true leader, brilliant American operation, we were all ex- and we will miss him greatly. hilarated, and that put some of the energy back in all of us. NOTE: This item was not received in time for pub- lication in the appropriate issue. What I want you to know is to get to to- morrow, we have to have the heart and the openness to other people that we found in Memorandum on Jordan the tragedy of Oklahoma City and the self- confidence and energy that we had when that June 23, 1995 boy came home. And if we do that, we’re Presidential Determination No. 95–27 going to be just fine. That is the issue in 1996. That is what Memorandum for the Secretary of State you’re investing in. It’s my last election. I’ll never run for anything else. [Laughter] You’ll Subject: Certification of Jordan Under never have to come to one of these again. Section 130(c) of the International Security You’ll never be dunned again. [Laughter] and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 You’ll never have to stand in line again if Pursuant to section 130(c) of the Inter- you don’t want to. But just know this time, national Security and Development Co- this time, the stakes are the highest they have operation Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–83), ever been, higher than they were in ’92 be- I hereby certify that Jordan is publicly com- cause of where we have moved and where mitted to the recognition of Israel and to ne- we can go. It is worth the fight. And I can’t gotiate promptly and directly with Israel make it without you, but together I think we under basic tenets of United Nations Secu- will. rity Council Resolutions 242 and 338. God bless you, and thank you. You are authorized and directed to report this certification, together with the attached NOTE: The President spoke at 1:35 p.m. in the justification, to the Speaker of the House of William J. Clinton Ballroom at the Excelsior Representatives and the Chairman of the Hotel. In his remarks, he referred to Maurice Senate Foreign Relations Committee. You Mitchell, legal counsel, Arkansas Democratic are further authorized and directed to pub- Party; luncheon organizers James L. ‘‘Skip’’ Ruth- lish this determination, together with the at- erford, Jay Dunn, Doug Hatterman, Merle Peter- tached justification, in the Federal Register. son, and Jimmy Red Jones; and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas and his wife, Betty. This item William J. Clinton

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