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ing. We cannot afford the kinds of hatreds I want to thank all the musicians who played and wedge issues that have been too much tonight, and this is a Saxophone Club event; a staple of our politics in modern times. we’ve got five saxophones back here. Let’s Think about the rest of the world. There give them all a hand. [Applause] Thank you. is no country—no country as well-positioned I want to tell you how proud I am to be as the United States for the 21st century. But here with these fine folks who are up on the we have to make a decision. Are we all part stage with me. Gary Locke is going to be of one village? Do we want to say, ‘‘You’re a great Governor of Washington State. And on your own?’’ Do we really believe that you can be proud of him. I want to thank we’re all created equal in the eyes of God, my good friend Congressman Norm Dicks or do we need to have somebody to look for being here and ask for your support for down on so we can feel important? I think him. And I want to briefly introduce all these you know the answer to that. other gentlemen behind me because they’re I think we ought to build a bridge to the going to give you a chance to undo that revo- 21st century that is wide and strong so that lution that Mr. Gingrich brought us 2 years we can say to anybody we run across, any ago. man or woman, boy, or girl without regard So I’d like to ask them to give you a wave to anything else, ‘‘All you have to do is be- as I call their names: Kevin Quigley; Rick lieve in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Locke; Brian Baird; Jeff Coopersmith; and the Declaration of Independence, show up this gentleman got more votes than the in- for work tomorrow or for school, do your cumbent Congressman last night and will best, obey the law, love your neighbor as again November, Adam Smith. [Applause] yourself, and you’re part of our community Thank you. Thank you. and we’re willing to walk with you into the Now, were any of you in the Pike Street future.’’ Will you help me build that bridge? Market today? I hope you didn’t get pneu- [Applause] We need you, Washington. monia. I couldn’t believe that you waited in Thank you, and God bless you, and God the rain. You should know I just got the latest bless America. Thank you. figures. I understand that 35,000 people were put through the mags at the rally to- NOTE: The President spoke at 6:36 p.m. at the night. So I thank you for that. I am very Pike Place Market. A tape was not available for grateful for your presence here tonight and verification of the content of these remarks. for your support. Audience member. Play the sax! Remarks to the Saxophone Club in The President. No, I can’t do that. After Seattle the election, I’ll play, after the election. No, September 18, 1996 I’m not going to do it. You might as well stop now; I’m not going to do it. [Laughter] The President. Thank you. Thank you You know, that’s the way they were when very much. Believe it or not, we can almost they passed that budget and shut the Govern- see most of you way in the back and up there. ment down. I told them I wasn’t going to Thank you. put up with that, either. I didn’t do it. I want to begin by just thanking all of you [Laughter] After the election, I’ll play, after for being here tonight. the election. I’ve got to get my skill level back Audience member. Where’s Hillary? up. After the election, I’ll do that. [Laughter] Let me tell you something, this election The President. Well, Hillary is on her way in 7 weeks—or to be precise, 6 weeks and here. She’s been in Denver. We’re going to 6 days—is going to have a huge impact on leave for the bus trip here tomorrow, so what your country looks like in 50 years. You sometime in the next hour and a half she’ll know that, and you’re determined to make be here. it come out right, or you wouldn’t be here I want to thank you Tom Skerritt for intro- tonight, and you certainly wouldn’t be in such ducing me and for being a good friend and a good humor, with such high spirits, with supporter. I know you’re all proud of him. such high energy.

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But I want to ask you tonight to take the This has also been a great week for Ameri- energy, the enthusiasm, the spirit that you’re ca’s natural heritage and environment. Last manifesting here and take it out all across night we reached an agreement to preserve this community, all across this State, to your the old growth forests in Washington and Or- friends in other States for 6 weeks and 6 days. egon. This week we reached an agreement If you’ll give us 6 weeks and 6 days, we’ll to preserve and restore salmon on the Co- give you 4 great years. And I need your help. lumbia River, very important. Today I went You know, if you look around, if you just to the Grand Canyon, which was first pre- look around Seattle today and the State of served by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 by a Washington, you see a lot of living examples declaration of Presidential monument to de- of what I am trying so hard to do for Ameri- clare a monument in southern Utah: 1.7 mil- ca’s future. You know, I want to build a lion acres; the Grand Cascade-Escalante bridge to the future that has a growing econ- monument. It’s a beautiful, priceless treasure omy in which everybody can participate, not for our people and a great thing for our coun- just a few, but everybody. That’s why it’s im- try. portant to stop those who tried to cut back But we have more to do. There is a huge on education and instead make a college edu- difference here. One party wants to build a cation available to everybody, bring the bridge to the future; one says we should Internet to every classroom, make sure we reach back and build a bridge to the past. have world-class opportunities. One approach says the Government is always I want us to go forward as one community the problem; we’d be better off if we were building for the future. That’s why it’s impor- on our own. My approach says—I agree with tant to balance the budget without walking my wife’s book—it takes a village to raise a away from our commitments to education or child, to grow the country, to build a future. to the environment or to research. And there is no community in America As I said today at the Pike Street Market, more outward-looking, more reaching out to the University of Washington is the number the world, more relishing of its diversity than one recipient of Federal research investment Seattle. And the way you live every day trying of any public university in the United States to reconcile your differences and appreciate of America. You’ve got a big stake in our con- your differences and relish them and build tinuing to invest in the future and building strength out of this community, that’s what a better future. America has to do. Just in the last 4 years, I’ve seen the life When Hillary and our daughter and I went expectancy of people with HIV and AIDS to the Olympics to open them and I got to more than double in 4 years because of medi- talk to the American team, it occurred to me cal research and accelerating movement of that if the American team were to take off drugs to the marketplace. its uniforms and just walk around in the Just a few days before Christopher Reeve Olympic Village, you wouldn’t have a clue spoke so movingly at the Democratic Na- where they were from. [Laughter] I mean tional Convention about research—just a few we had Hispanic-Americans and we had Nor- days—for the first time in history we had an dic-Americans and we had Indian- and Paki- example of lower-limb movement being re- stani-Americans and we had Native Ameri- stored to laboratory animals that had their cans and we had all kinds of Asian-Americans spines severed by nerve transplants. This is from all over. historic in its implications. To turn away from Audience member. Gay Americans! research at the time when things like this The President. Yes. We had everybody are happening is folly. and all on the Olympic team. So it occurred So, yes, balance the budget, but keep in- to me that—and I sat in the Olympic dining vesting in our people and our future, so we hall there, and I ate with these various team can go forward together and grow together. members and people came up to me from You understand that here. You know that Ireland and from the Middle East and from here. You know it’s a part of our future, and various places where I’ve been working to you have to stand for it. try to make peace and thanked me for the

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efforts of the United States. And I thought who would rather fight about something that to myself—I thought to myself, here we got happened 300 or 600 years ago, instead of 197 different national groups represented at letting all the Catholic and Protestant kids the Olympics. Our largest county, Los Ange- go forward into the future together. les County, has people from over 150 of It’s amazing to me that in Bosnia, where those places in one county. In Seattle, you they lived together in peace for decades, have nearly that many. And yet, we’re still within a matter of months they started a 4- somehow making it work. year war where they were killing each other’s But that’s still our biggest challenge. You kids. That’s why I over-react, by some stand- think about the time I spent as your Presi- ards, when we do things like have church dent trying to get other people around the burnings here or synagogues are defaced or world to get along instead of look down on Islamic centers are destroyed. This is a coun- each other. try which rests on a simple premise. We have That’s the last thing I will say. This is a never lived up to it perfectly, but we’re get- better country in terms of our achievements, ting better at it all along, which is why we’re our direction, and our opportunity, our sense still around here after 220 years. And that of civic responsibility; we’re stronger, we’re simple premise is, everybody is equal in the in better shape than we were 4 years ago. eyes of God. If you want to be an American, By any measure, we’re in better shape than what you have to do is believe in the Declara- we were 4 years ago. tion of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and But if you really want to build a bridge the Constitution and show up and behave to the 21st century, if you want to feel on yourself and do right, and you’re part of our a daily basis about your country the energy, country, and you’ll be on that bridge to the the elation, the joy you are manifesting here 21st century. That is what you have to do. tonight, you know as well as I do that we That is what you have to do. Will you help have to make opportunity available to every- me build that bridge? one. We have to give everyone a chance and Audience members. Yes! expect everyone to play the role of respon- The President. Will you give me 6 weeks sible citizen. And we have got to find a way and 6 days? to convince everybody who hasn’t got it yet Audience members. Yes! that we are stronger, not weaker, because of The President. Will you help these people our diversity. It is our meal ticket to the fu- to be elected so that we can construct the ture. It is our meal ticket to the future. There country we want? is not a country in the world as well-posi- Audience members. Yes! tioned for the 21st century as the United The President. We need you. Don’t get States. careless. Don’t be taking this election for Audience member. You know it! granted. Keep this spirit tonight for 6 weeks The President. Nobody. Because of the and 6 days, and you will really have some- way we’re connected to the rest of the world, thing to celebrate on November 5th. because of what we’re doing with technology, Thank you, and God bless you. because of our commitment to educate all of our children, because of the entrepreneur- ial spirit we have. But the great test is, are NOTE: The President spoke at 10:32 p.m. at the we going to be one community? Are we going Paramount Theater. In his remarks, he referred to make a strength out of what is bedeviling to actor Tom Skerritt; Kevin Quigley, candidate for 2d congressional district; Rick Locke, can- so much of the rest of the world? didate for 4th congressional district; Jeff It breaks my heart to think that there are Coopersmith, candidate for 1st congressional dis- people in the Middle East that want to keep trict; Adam Smith, candidate for 9th congressional the war going. It breaks my heart to see that district. A tape was not available for verification the peace in Ireland was broken by people of the content of these remarks.

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Remarks on Beginning a Bus Tour in Americans in the country with kids and low Tacoma, Washington incomes. September 19, 1996 They told you that our economic plan was going to fail. Well, it’s inconvenient for them, The President. Thank you. Thank you in but 101⁄2 million jobs later, record new ex- the back. ports, record new businesses, record busi- Audience members. Four more years! nesses owned by women and minorities, 60 Four more years! Four more years! percent reduction in the deficit, the first time The President. Thank you. Thank you up since before the Civil War the deficit’s gone there. Thank you very much. Well, I know down in all 4 years of an administration, you that it’s a little wet out here, and as I said now know that they were wrong in 1994. We last night, I’ve been coming to Washington were right. Send Adam Smith and Jeff for several years now, and it has never rained Coopersmith to the Congress, and give Norm on me before. I feel that, finally, you have Dicks some help to move you forward and accepted me as one of your own. our country forward into the next century. I want to thank you for coming out in such And thank you, Gary Locke, for your dis- large numbers, and I can tell that a little rain tinguished career in public service, for the has not dampened your spirits. Are you ready fine and positive campaign you have run for to fight for the next 6 weeks and 5 days? Governor of the State of Washington. I want Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Thank you for your all of you to do what you can in the next welcome and for your leadership. Congratu- few weeks to make sure that this fine man lations on so many things you are doing here is the next Governor. It is very important to in Tacoma, but especially, from my point of your future, more and more responsibilities view, congratulations on winning the Presi- are devolving upon the State. The next Gov- dent’s Excellence Award for Exporting in ernor of Washington will, among other 1994, and for keeping Tacoma and Washing- things, have the responsibility of working ton open and reaching out to the rest of the with local communities to create an unprece- world, not turning away from it. I hope you dented number of new jobs for people we will continue to do that. are trying to move from welfare to work in Thank you, Bridget Woods, for getting up a way that supports families and supports here and making that brave speech. There children and does not walk away from our aren’t many 16-year-old girls speaking to responsibilities to them. I think you know 28,000 people, and you did a fine job today. who will do a better job of that, and I hope Thank you. God bless you. you will help him win this election. Thank you, Norm Dicks, for being a great I want to thank the other officials who are Congressman and a great friend and a vision- here, but most of all, I want to tell you that ary leader, not only for the people of your you can’t imagine what it’s like to pull up district, for the people of this country. And in a bus and see 28,000 people in the morn- thank you—thank you so much, Adam Smith, ing, in Tacoma, standing in the rain. That’s for running for Congress. And thank you, Jeff because you know that America is on the Coopersmith, if you’re here, for running for right track to the 21st century, and we intend Congress. And I want you folks to send them to keep it on that track, and I want you to there. Just remember—just remember—2 help us. years ago, just 2 years ago, our friends in the I have said before, let me say again: We other party were crowing that Washington are living at a moment of enormous possibil- State had led the way in the Republican Rev- ity. The young people in this audience will olution, that the people of Washington were have more chances to live out their dreams dying to see our economic policies reversed than any generation of Americans in history. and our crime policies reversed. They told If—if we build a bridge to the 21st century you that we raised the income taxes of ordi- that opens opportunity for all, expects re- nary Americans; it wasn’t true. And then they sponsibility from all, and is big enough, broad turned around and tried to raise the income enough, and strong enough for every Amer- taxes of 9 million of the hardest working ican who is willing to work for it to go across,

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