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"don'tetwood mac's stop" playing] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ >> thank you very much. thank you for being here. i want to thank my friend of summiteers for introducing me 20 years ago and being here again. thank you, rodney slater, who, the first of the year, we will have been together 30 years. for his service in arkansas and in washington. thank you, james carville, forgetting our heads straight for the day. [laughter] and for keeping your eye on the ball and never quitting when people told you it was a lost cause. i want to thank chicago for playing for us and playing for us again tonight. [applause] i want to thank fleetwood mac for "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." nick fleet would actually sent us a contribution to support us this reunion weekend. i want to thank al gore for calling in and being the best vice-president this country ever had. [applause] he was great. i would like to thank my daughter who was here last night and you had to leave this morning for that great film and for a wonderful life time of reminding me what politics is really all about. i want to commend president obama for appointing the best secretary of state i can imagine. [applause] you know, i have had a great time these past 10 years being a has been and watch hillary be a center -- be a senator and run for president of the united states. when we met many years ago, 40 plus, to be exact, as soon as i got to know her, i thought she was the most gifted person in my generation. i still feel that way and i am very proud of her. [applause] i was doing really well until i watched those films. in spite of what james carville said, it feels all little nostalgic as i look at all of you here. george washington said once that he had gone blind in the service of his country and had the spectacle. so have i.. i want this anniversary weekend more than anything else as those of you who have been your from the beginning, to be a day of thanks from me to you of gratitude on all of our parts for the chance we had to serve and do something for our country that has done so much for us. for the young people of america, of reassurance and rededication to the idea that we absolutely can get out of the fix we are in and be better than ever. [applause] i am very well aware that the videos you saw, especially the last days of achievements at the end, would never have been possible without my family, my friends, my staff, my fellow arkansans, and people across america who helped me, including people i have known for many years. someone said to me once that i may have been the only person in the history of the republic ever to have been elected president because of his personal friends. and i took that as a great compliment. i thank you all from the bottom of my heart. [applause] 20 years ago, we set out on this great journey in a remarkable time, knowing after the next presidential alexian, whoever was elected week -- would be the first to serve a full term in the aftermath of the cold war. it cast a pall over the victory of world war two and shaped so much of what people in america and the former soviet union and all over the world did in organizing their lives for decades. it was obvious, as you saw a in the films, that we had to rekindle the american dream, we had to build our economy in a way that would give as a bridge to the new century. we had to do it in a way that would keep the world's leaders -- the world's leading force for peace, prosperity, freedom and security. we decided to go forward with some very simple ideas. the most important of which was that we should put people first. that the idea of opportunity for all, responsibility for all, a community for all americans was more than a slogan. it was in direct opposition to the idea that government would mess up and you would be better off on your own with a winner- take-all strategy. it did not work very well then and it has not worked very well since. [applause] we believe that investing in global economics was better than trickle-down economics. [applause] we believed even if those had to pay more in taxes, that was better them burdening our children for generations to come. [applause] those beliefs gave us a whole new direction in policy. a budget that actually reduced the debt while cutting taxes on lower-income working families so no one would ever have to work and raise children and still be in poverty. that one budget listed more than 2 million children out of poverty the very first one. [applause] we believed that we had to dramatically increase our investments in education and information technology, in science and biomedical research. we believed trade could be a positive, not a negative for america. we only have 4% of the world's people, we've got to sell something to somebody. [laughter] but we believe in trade and in force. when we forgot the enforce, we got an awful lot of trouble. we believe america could be a great manufacturing company again and after years of decline, in six east of the eight years i served, we had a gain in manufacturing jobs, something i remain proud of them look forward to happening again. [applause] we believe the most important job in any society is raising children. that is what the family and medical leave act was about, enabling people to succeed at home and at work. if you fail in the one, you're going to fall behind. it's been a very important principle we need to work for again. we believe in children's health insurance policy and in slowing the inflation in medical costs. those eight years for the only times in 30 years when health- care costs had not gone up at three times the rate of inflation and we increased the number of people had medical insurance before left. [applause] we believe you could improve the environment and the economy at the same time if you did it in the right way. i still believe that. [applause] i think it is not a burden on the economy -- on the economy that 43 million more people agreed to clean air. that struck me as a pretty good thing. [applause] we believe we live in a world where we needed more friends and your enemies. we built all of these networks of cooperation with the asia- pacific region, our neighbors in latin america, expanding nato all kinds of networks of cooperation. all we basically did was what we were supposed to do. for 235 years, things have been changing and americans have confronted new challenges and they just did what they were supposed to do. with barely any precedents, anywhere in the world, our founding fathers created a democracy that was strong enough to meet the challenges of each new era and limit the enough to avoid the kind of abuse of power our founders were -- our founders were running away from. we survived the civil war, a great depression, two world wars, relentless waves of social and economic change and social conflicts. to emerge as the people who started us intended, a more perfect union. where we widen the circle of opportunity, deepen the meaning of freedom, strengthen the bonds are community. every year, it seems more and more people we used to think of as too different to except become part of us and are no longer part of them. [applause] so now, the big challenge to our more perfect tuning it is a terrible economic crisis, more different and deeper and difficult than the one i faced. it is about way more than money. i am looking at your s some people i have seen that i have known all my life. most of us didn't have much when we were kids. but most of us never doubted that no matter what happened, we could support ourselves. no matter what happened, even if we did not have a big trust fund, we could make a living and put food on the table, feed our kids, send them to school, have clean clothes on their back. this is about more than economics. this is about human dignity. [applause] i think that is really important. when we have one of these so- called recoveries or gdp grows and 90% of the game goes to 10% of the people and 40% goes to 1% and every year there are more and more people who are robbed of that dignity, that is not the american dream. [applause] i was thinking the other day, i tried to make a list of everything i had ever done and it never earned money. my memory is not what it was used to be. i went to work a grocery store when i was 13. the guy i was working for let me set up a small business on the side. i sold all of my used comet books. how stupid. it would be worth $200,000 today. i made about $30 and thought i was the richest fellow i knew. by the time i got out of law school, i thought of other things to earn money. i never made much money, but i learned something from everyone. i learned something about the work and the people i was doing business with and i learned to give people their money's worth, both my employers and customers. it was all part of dignity. when i lost an election, i thought i could make a living. too many people have been true -- have been deprived of that dignity. not just our fellow americans. it's estimated almost 300 million people around the world today are aggressively and desperately looking for full- time work. so they can support their children. i say that because i think we face a momentous choice today. if we want national prosperity and personal dignity, we have to decide whether it can best be strengthened by yet one more assault on government as the source of all our ills or by building a partnership between our private economy and a smart government to build shared prosperity. you know where i come down on that debate. there is not a single example on our planet today, not one, not one, or an anti-government strategy has produced a vibrant economy with stromboli that broadbased growing prosperity. -- with strong and broad based growing prosperity. but we had a years in the united states where the smart government and private economy produced a lot of shared prosperity and it can again. [applause] that is how we had 22 + million jobs and a 40-year low in unemployment and a real increase in income for middle-class americans and, most important to me, when the labor market's got tight, we had for years in a row or the bottom 20% of working families in comes in percentage terms rose as much as the top 20% and a hundred times as many people moved out of poverty in those eight years in 12 years before or eight years after because we had a partnership. [applause] it is tougher now. the financial collapse occurred in september of 2008 was the tail end of a bad economy, not the beginning. the day before that collapse, this economy had only produced in seven years and eight months, 2.5 million new jobs. the day before that collapse, median family income was $2,000 lower than it was the day i left office after health-care premiums had tripled and college costs have gone up 75%. then, it turned out, the economy which bottomed out in the middle of 2009 went lower than we do. the president was in office for more than a year and the stimulus package had passed before it turned out that instead of an almost 4% contraction in the economy, it went down 7.5%. so, what does all that mean? it means to get out of this fix, we have to do three things. we need a short-term growth strategy, even if we have to borrow the money to do it. the federal government can borrow money at less than 2%. you know i hate debt, but you cannot get blood out of a turn up. you cannot balance the budget in a stagnant economy. [applause] we need a short-term growth strategy. we need long-term plan to deal with the debt when growth returns. and, in the middle, we have to clean up the housing mess or we are never going to get the show on the road again and return to a full growth economy. whether you are a republican, democrat, liberal or conservative, one thing is indisputable. the president has offered a plan for short-term economic stimulus. he has offered proposals to make the housing crisis less severe, and he has offered his first down payment, and it is a big one, to reduce long-term debt by $3 billion. it is up to congress to act on those plans and if they don't like them, come up with a better idea. [applause] one thing i would like to ask all of your ideas on is this -- it became clear to me, first when i was governor -- keep in mind you all cat reelecting me what our economy was lousy. until the year i ran for president, we only had one month when our unemployment rate was below the national average, but you knew we had a plan to change it. we were bringing back manufacturing. we let the region in job growth and in 1992, coincidentally, and i did not know this is going to happen on october 3rd when i was standing here, we ranked first or second in the country in new job growth all year long. but it took a long time. we had a strategy to do it. you have to have a strategy for new jobs every five years. my personal favorite is changing the way we produce and consume energy. you can create jobs in every town and every small community and every big city in the united states doing that. the opportunity is not limited by party philosophy or geography. i like that. i think a commitment to rebuild the manufacturing base will. i think a commitment to increase exports will. we can do better. but we have to do that. there is no example of a country in the fix we are and that can balance the budget without a combination of spending cuts, the people who can afford paying more, and growing economy. if you do not have economic growth, there is no combination that can get blood out of a turn up. -- out of a turnip. why am i saying all of this? we made a decision here 20 years ago, all of you who three or lot in. let's face it, on that day, my mother was the only person who thought i was going to be elected president. [laughter] hillary and chelsea were undecided. though leaning positive. we just made a decision the country needed a new kind of politics, a new kind of economics, a new commitment to get into the next century with the american dream alive and well. a commitment that would restore the middle-class and give people who were poor a chance to work their way into it. we decided to stop the politics of pitting one american against another by race, by ethnicity, gender, by income, by anything else. while we just work together and see how that works out? [applause] so glad we started here. in 1977, in january on a very cold night, i heard my first reception as a public official when i became attorney general. as governor, with the help of rose crane, who is still out there, we began the effort to restore the old statehouse to its original condition. many people have worked on that and then a brilliant job of giving us what we now treasure. it symbolizes our past, present, and future. not 30 years after this building was built -- a little more than 30 years. right after the civil war. when most white males, or the only people voting back then, were disenfranchised as a result of having fought for the south, we had a governor's race here. between a man named brooks and a man named baxter. it was not clear who won. it was close enough that they were shooting at a share. one group was over there by the capital hotel and the other was trying to lodge here at the capital and they were shooting at each other. the president of the united states was ulysses grant. having been the commanding general of the civil war, his authority was so great he finally just said baxter is the governor, get over it and stop this mess. president grant then came to capitol hotel, stood on that balcony you can see today. the arkansas river came in very close to our streets and they had a grand parade going by because they figured we had to stop fighting and get the show on the road. i will tell you folks, in memory of one of the most important moments, we had to stop fighting and get the show on the road. [applause] when we walked out of here, we started this seven-day week, 24- hour campaign. our first headquarters was an old paint store on seventh street. i drove by today just so i could see it one more time. then we moved to the "arkansas gazette" building. the "gazette" has recently closed. in its glorious -- in its glory days, it was one of the most progressive papers for civil- rights in the country. i kept hoping the ghost of its progressive past would somehow sprinkle angel dust on our campaign and give us a good break. this journey begun here worked out pretty well for americans. i am grateful for all you have done. i want to just do two more things. first of all, those of us here, we are not alone in this effort. those who could not be here, we are not alone. i have signed some 600 letters of condolences since i left the white house on the passing of people who helped me become president or who worked in one were both of my administrations. it began in the campaign when we lost my mid-atlantic fund- raising chair and the incomparable paul tully. in my first term, we lost ron brown who i love like a brother and he may be the best commerce secretary we've ever had. [applause] it has continued to the last two months when we lost maria he lay and va rudolph. i knew i was going to be a good governor in 1979 when i took my first trade mission abroad when we went to hong kong and stayed in some high-rise hotel. i thought i was somebody. i had never been anywhere before. . >> in the executive suite at the library. and i opened the drawers. and v.a. rudolph left a note a couple of weeks before she died. and all she said was, good digs, i am glad i was along for the ride. and in honor of all of those people, i would like to ask for a moment of silence and gratitude. >> thank you. now i want to say something to the young people who are here. i have been, you know i have a lot of time to study what is going on in america. i am home alone a lot. my wife has a traveling job. so i keep reading all of these surveys that say young people in the united states are getting discouraged. they are afraid they won't have a better future. at one level i understand that. cause t