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Remarks to the California Democratic Party in Sacramento April 8, 1995 Administration of William J. Clinton, 1995 / Apr. 8 into law, it's got to have a stronger work compo- grow up to be in a university or be in jail nent. or somewhere in between. But the chances are Second, the House bill is too tough on chil- awful good that what happens to the child will dren. It cuts off aid to children who are on be influenced by what happens to the babies welfare just because their mothers are young in their earliest days and months and years. and unmarried. These children didn't choose to So let's don't punish these babies and children be born to single mothers; they didn't choose for their parents' errors. Instead, let's give them to be born on welfare; they didn't choose to a chance to grow up with a good education be born to women who are teenagers. We ought and a head start, so they'll be independent, to remember that a child is a child, a baby working citizens. is a baby. Whether they're white, black, or So I say to Speaker Gingrich and to the lead- brown, whether they're born in or out of wed- ers of the Senate and the House in both parties, lock, anybody anywhere is entitled to a chance, let's work together to get this job done. Let's and innocence, if it's a baby. We simply prove to the American people that we can re- shouldn't punish babies and children for their form welfare, really reform it, without letting parents' mistakes. this issue divide us. It is time to end welfare So we can be good to our children and give as we know it, to put people to work without them a chance to have a better life because punishing children. we've got a stake in that. Just think about it. Thanks for listening. Every child born in America, whether they're born to a welfare family or to a middle class NOTE: The address was recorded at 8 p.m. on family or to a wealthy family, is going to grow April 7 in the Hilton Inn in Sacramento, CA, for up and be a part of our future. The child may broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on April 8. Remarks to the California Democratic Party in Sacramento April 8, 1995 The President. Thank you very much. Thank to help California. I thank them. I'm glad to you for the wonderful, wonderful welcome. And be here with Willie Brown. I was watching him thank you for the wonderful film. It's nice to on the television back there, and he was smiling, see the record out there in a compelling way. you know. And I thought, I hope I look half Thank you, and bless you. that good when I'm his age. The truth is he I guess you all know that this is Bill Press' already looks younger than me, and I resent birthday. We threw him a good party, didn't it. [Laughter] Senator Lockyer, I'm glad to be we? Happy birthday. here with you. And Mayor Serna, thank you I'm delighted to be here with all the officers for hosting us. I'm glad to be here with your of the Democratic Party, with Arlene Holt and State controller, Kathleen Connell; your super- of course with our chair, Don Fowler. I thank intendent of education, Delane Eastin; and of him for this remarks. Wasn't Barbara Boxer course, I love hearing Gray Davis talk. It's nice wonderful this morning? I'll tell you, you have to know that you're always going to have a Gov- no idea what a joy it is to see her in Wash- ernor, no matter what, and a good one on occa- ington, with all those other politicians kind of sion. tippy-toeing around and trying to be just careful, I'm delighted to be here with a number of you know. And there's Barbara every day just my California staffers, of course, led by my right there through the door, the same way Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta. I know a lot of every day. I want to thank the members of you used to be represented by him, and you're the California delegation who are here, Norm glad to see him. And you all give him a good Mineta, Bob Matsui, Vic Fazio, Maxine Waters, hand. He doesn't get much of this in Wash- Walter Tucker. They have been our friends and ington, so he needs it. I mean, he needs it. our partners. They have worked hard to turn Give him really more. Give him a little more. this country around and move it forward and [Ap- 493 VerDate 27-APR-2000 12:22 May 04, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00493 Fmt 1240 Sfmt 1240 C:\95PAP1\95PAP1.067 txed01 PsN: txed01 Apr. 8 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1995 plause] Don't overdo it; he might quit and come because half of our people were working harder home. [Laughter] That was just about right. for the same or lower wages than they were Thank you. making 15 years before; because people were I want to also tell you that after we leave working harder, sleeping less, spending less time here we're going down to Los Angeles, and with their children; because we had profound we're going to have an event with the National problems in the fabric of our society, pressures Education Association on school violence. So we on the family unit, more and more of our chil- have representatives here from the national dren being born out of wedlock, high rates of NEA, and our wonderful Secretary of Edu- crime and violence and drugs, the absence of cation, Dick Riley, is also here with me today. hope for so many of our people who felt isolated And I'd like for you to welcome him. and abandoned; because the Government I was looking at that film, and I don't know seemed to me to be caught in a gridlock where how many of you know this, but there was only one side could blame the other, but the facts one moment in that film when I got kind of were that we had 12 years of trickle-down eco- a twinge and I sort of had to control myself, nomics in which the deficit exploded, investment when that picture of me in the academic robe in our people went down, and nobody was really and the tasselÐthat was at UCLA. [Laughter] willing to take on the serious problems of the Well, they won it fair and square, and they country, so that most people in their ordinary deserved it. lives just felt left out. The National Government I am delighted to be here. You know, you became less and less and less relevant to their folks believed in the campaign I ran in 1992 lives, except at tax time when it was a burden. well enough to go out and work your hearts And so I thought we could change that. out to try to turn the direction of the country I ran for President because I thought our and the direction of California around. And we country had three great tasks: First, we needed carried this State for the first time a Democratic to begin once again to reestablish the American President had carried it since 1964, and I thank economic dreams, to grow the middle class, you for that. shrink the under class, and create more opportu- I also want to thank you for all of the ap- nities for entrepreneurs to live out their dreams. plause that came out of this audience when the Second, because I thought we needed to re- picture of Hillary appeared on the screen. Thank assert the fundamental values that made this you for that. Hillary and Chelsea have just come country great, responsibility, responsibility in our home, you know, from a very long trip. They individual lives, in our work lives, in our family went to India, to Pakistan, to Bangladesh, to lives, and in our communities, taking responsi- Nepal, to Sri Lanka, always looking at the condi- bility one for another, understanding that we tion of women and young girls in these coun- are going up or down together in this country tries, in that very important part of the world. whether we like it or not, so we had better You know this in California because you have make the most of it. And thirdly, because I so many people living here who come from thought we ought to reform Government, to those places, but the future of the globe will make it more relevant and more effective to be determined in no insignificant measure by our daily lives, to do four things: to create more what happens in those nations. And the ability economic opportunity; to shrink the bureauc- to preserve democracy and hope and freedom racy; to make our people more secure, not only in those nations depends in no small measure around the world but here at home on our on how women and girls are treated and wheth- streets and in our schools and in our homes; er they have the opportunity to live up to their and most important of all, to empower people God-given capacities. through education to make the most of their My fellow Americans, we are at an historic own lives in the global economy.
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