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      REMARKS BY GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON AND SENATOR AL GORE
                     ST. LOUIS MAIN LIBRARY
                         ST. LOUIS, MO.
                            07/22/92


                        SENATOR AL GORE:

Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. What a crowd here
today! Way over there behind us, there's another big crowd part
of this crowd, way back that way, way down the street that way,
in both directions, up on the roof. This is biggest one yet. But
ladies and gentlemen, we were told on the way over here that
there are more than forty thousand people gathered here for this
event today.

Let me tell you why I think this is happening. All along this bus
tour, on the roadsides, and at the small towns and the large
towns and the cities, everywhere, Republicans for Clinton/Gore
have been coming to join these crowds. Independents and Perot-
supporters for Clinton/Gore have been joining these crowds. We
Americans love our country. We want change in this country.

People are allowing themselves to hope again. We are tired of
politics. We are tired of the politics of distraction, denial,
despair, and division. We want the politics of hope, and
substance, and accomplishment to get this country moving forward
in the right direction again.

Before I introduce Bill Clinton, I would like to introduce two
other people in words I used last week at the convention, two
women who have done more than the last two men in the White House
have done in their whole lifetimes for children and families,
Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore.

I'd like to thank my friend Dick Gephardt for his introduction of
me, and tell you what you already know. He stands for integrity,
compassion, caring, competence, and leadership in Washington. We
need a lot more like Dick Gephardt to help us pass Bill Clinton's
programs.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, you know Bill Clinton's story. His
father died in a tragic accident three months before he was born.
He was born into a poor family. His mother had to go to work to
put food on the table. His grandparents helped out. But Bill
lifted himself up by his bootstraps, worked his way through
college, and took that great education, not to make a personal
fortune, but to come back home to help the families who were in
the circumstances from which he came.

And he has gained the reputation of leadership in the field of
education by lifting the test scores above the national average
with innovative, creative new programs; by implementing new
health care programs in his state that form the basis for some of
the provisions of the national health insurance program that he
has talked about in his campaign; and by creating good
manufacturing jobs at ten times the national average.

Those are some of the reasons why the other forty-nine governors,
Republicans and Democrats alike, voted to name Bill Clinton the
best and most effective governor in the United States of America.

Now we've got a basic choice to make. Do we want to continue in
the same rut we've been in for the last twelve years? Do we want
to keep a government that responds only to the wealthy and
powerful and privileged few? Do we want a phony environmental
President? Do we want a phony education President? Or do we want
a change in this country?

Do we want a real environmental President? A real education
President? Do we want to get this country moving again? Do we
want to put people first for a change?

Ladies and gentlemen, help us send a message to those in the
White House who have turned their backs on the working families
of this country. Let's tell Bush and Quayle that it's time for
them to go.

What time is it?

CROWD: It's time for them to go.

Again, what time is it?

CROWD: It's time for them to go.

One more time, loud enough so that they can hear you all the way
in the White House. What time is it?

CROWD: It's time for them to go.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the next President of the United
States of America, Bill Clinton.

                     GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you
very much. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the largest, most
enthusiastic, most committed crowd of Americans we have seen on
this great trip.

Al Gore and I today are ending the first thousand miles of our
campaign to change America. We have gone from New Jersey to
Pennsylvania to West Virginia to Ohio to Kentucky to Indiana to
Illinois and now to St. Louis in a great crusade to give the
American people their country back.

And all along the way, we have been reminded about what makes
this country great--going through the farming communities and
seeing the little children lighting sparklers along our way;
seeing people hold out their American flags; seeing the
Clinton/Gore banners draped across the combines in the fields;
seeing America say we want to change this country and put our
people first for a change.

This great state, the home of Harry Truman, is called the Show-Me
State. One thing you cannot say about this administration, you
can't say that Bush and Quayle haven't shown you, they have shown
you. Look what they have shown you: the worst economic record in
the last fifty years, only Herbert Hoover in the twentieth
century, matched the economic record of this last administration.

When Reagan and Bush came to office, we had the highest wages in
the world. We are down to thirteenth and dropping. In every
measure of economic performance, we are falling behind.

Most people in this crowd today, and most people in this country
today are working harder today for less money than they were
making ten years ago. Is it right?

And what have they given us? The same old, tired idea, they are
in the grip of a failed theory. They believe passionately that
the only way for America to compete and win in the world is for
us to become more unequal and more divided, keep taxes as low as
possible on the wealthiest Americans, raise them on the middle
class, explode the deficit, and get the government out of the
way.

What has it brought us? More decline, more inequality, an America
that is the mockery of the world. This year, they got their way--
the top one percent of Americans control more wealth than the
bottom ninety percent. Did it make us strong? No.

What happened? The President goes to Japan and the Japanese Prime
Minister says he feels sympathy for the United States. I say this
to those who are holding up those "Jobs Now" posters, when I'm
your President and Al Gore is your Vice-President, people will
look up to us with respect, not down on us with sympathy, because
we're going to win again.


We want a new day for the Democratic party, and a new day for
America. Here we are in St. Louis, Missouri, and you're having an
election year here today. And I don't want to get involved in
your elections, but I do want to say that you have two Democrats
running for governor, both of whom are better than all the
Republicans they can dredge up.

Al Gore and I woke up this morning and Mayor ... of St. Louis. We
ran up to Lafayette Square, we ran back. Neither one of us
fainted, and we decided that this was a wonderful city, and Mr.
Mayor, we're glad to be here.

And I want to thank your Lieutenant Governor, Mel Carnahan, for
being one of the first people to endorse me when I was low in the
polls, and now that we're up, we're going to change the country
together, all of us working together.

Let me tell you something. In my announcement speech at the
Democratic National Convention, I quoted one of my favorite
verses of scripture, "Where there is no vision, the people
perish." George Bush mocked that as the "vision thing." He said,
"I'm not very good on the vision thing." I hope you never leave a
place without a vision, I hope you don't have to live tomorrow
without a vision. I hope you never have to raise a child without
a vision, or plant a crop without a vision, or start a business
without a vision. That's what's the matter with this country
today.

And I'll tell you something else. We have a plan. We have a plan.
Mr. Bush said our plan was smoke and mirrors. Well, he's the
world's expert on smoke and mirrors. You decide if it's smoke and
mirrors. Here it is, it says, "For too long, our government has
been dominated by special interests, our elections controlled by
them, our process paralyzed by them. We're going to give the
government back to the people again. We're going to invest in
jobs, and education, and affordable health care for all
Americans, not just a few."

Our plan says no smoke and mirrors. We're going to pay for it by
taking every dollar by which defense is reduced, and re-investing
it here in America to put those people back to work. Why should
we throw people out to work, when we can create more jobs in the
future.

It says, "We're going to open the doors of college education to
all Americans. Let anybody borrow the money to go to college. And
pay it back, either as a percentage of your income when you go to
work, or, better yet, come home to St. Louis, come home to
Missouri and work for two years. Be a police officer, be a nurse,
be a teacher, work to help kids in trouble. Pay back your college
loan by solving the problems of America at home."

Our plan says, "If you're a high school graduate and you don't go
to college, we want a hundred percent of you to have at least two
years of further training in an apprenticeship program to get a
good job, not a dead-end job." I'm tired of the dignity being
stripped from blue-collar work in America.

Our plan says, "We're going to take on the health insurance
companies in the bureaucracy and the government regulation, and
strip the millions of dollars of waste out of the health care
system, to control the costs, to preserve industry and the
decency and security of life for average Americans, and provide a
basic package of health care to all Americans. We're going to get
America in line with the rest of the world."

Our plan says, "Every American will have to be more responsible
for the future of this country. We want to create more wealthy
people in America than Reagan and Bush have, but we've got an
old-fashioned idea. We want everybody to get rich by putting the
American people to work, producing American jobs, American goods,
American services."

And so we say, "New incentives for modern plant and equipment,
new incentives to start new business, but no more tax breaks for
moving your jobs overseas. We will help you to build America
again, and we want you to get rich doing it the old-fashioned
way."

Our plan says, "We're going to liberate the poor. We're going to
change the tax system for all those working poor people, who
courageously get up every day, work forty hours a week, do their
best to raise their children, and they're still in poverty. We
ought to have a tax system that says, if you're working hard and
playing by the rules, we're going to lift you up and out of
poverty in this country today.

We're going to have a welfare system that says, "We want you to
have more from your country in education and training, and health
care for your children, but then when you can go to work, you've
got to go to work." Welfare should be a second chance, not a way
of life.

We're going to have a new idea. Put our people first. Invest in
the re-vitalization of our cities and our countryside. Put this
money back to where it belongs, in creating jobs and education,
so we can compete. There is nothing wrong with this country,
except that we're under-organized, under-educated, and under-led,
and we're going to change all that in November, if you'll help
us.

Ladies and gentlemen, people say to me all the time, "Well, that
sounds good. But how do I know you're serious?"

Well, I'll tell you one way you know I'm serious. Look at the
first decision George Bush made, and the first decision I made.
Dan Quayle versus Al Gore. I win. I wanted Al Gore to be on my
team because he knows more than I do about some things, not cause
he'll make me look good every day.


The first and greatest Republican President, Abraham Lincoln,
said that you can never lift yourself up by putting other people
down. Al Gore and I want to lift everybody in America up. We
don't want anybody left out.

We think you can be pro-business and pro-labor. We think you can
be tough on crime and, still, fair to all Americans. And we think
you can preserve the environment and develop the economy, and the
other side doesn't believe any of that.

Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't get into this mess overnight. And
we won't get out of it overnight. But we will make progress.

The thing that kills a country is when people get up every day,
and they don't think that tomorrow will be better, when they
think nothing is going to change, when they think nobody cares
about them, when it's every person for themselves.

We want to restore this country a genuine sense of community and
caring, to say we're all in this together. We're going up or down
together, without regard to race or region or income. This is
America. Let's start acting like it again.

And we want you to believe that tomorrow can be better than
today. Don't let anybody tell you we can't make these changes.

There are countries in the world today where the people are not
working as hard, and they're making more money, and they've got
health insurance, because their governments put their people
first. They know that if you don't take care of people, nothing
else works.

So if you're sick and tired of the way it's been going, if you
want people in control again, if you believe your country is
still the greatest country in the world again, if you think we
can compete and win again, if you're tired of being heartbroken
when you go home at night, and you want a spring in your step and
a song in your heart, you give Al Gore and I a chance to bring
America back. We will lift the country up. It's time for them to
go, and time for us to rescue America.

God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you.