 As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them. |
| It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. |
| Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. |
| If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. |
| It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them. |
| 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. |
| The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever. |
| On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office. |
| Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. |
| The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. |
| It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%. |
| At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. |
| The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. |
| Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism. |
| And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. |
| The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush. |
| What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues. |
| But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. |
| We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. |
| On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. |
