He may want to go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, |
He talks about a smaller government; there are actually more people in government, except for people in defense-related jobs. They're gone. The government's bigger than it was when President Kennedy was around, even though he says it's not. |
He told me to grow up and make the best of what I have. |
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil. |
I am announcing my economic program for America's renewal -- a program that will return economic growth, rising living standards and prosperity for all Americans to the center of our policy. |
I got a 'B,' ... He got a 'B-minus.' |
I have ... been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart -- by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again. |
I haven't been up there. |
I just can't win, |
I know how he feels. |
I look at the slowest growth in a century. He inherited a growth of 4.7 to 4.8 percent, and now it's down to about 2.4 percent. We're going to pass a million bankruptcies for the first time in history. We've got stagnant wages, |
I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials. |
I mean, people say, 'If I'd have ever known you were like that, I'd have voted for you,' or, 'I saw your commercial, I like it. It's funny' or whatever ... I hope they remember the product. |
I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics. |
I once described myself as the most optimistic man in America. Life has taught me to put my faith in the uncounted millions who may never run for office, pass a bill, or craft a sound bite, but who fight our wars and embody the ideals worth fighting for. My contemporaries have been called the greatest generation. It's not a title we bestowed on ourselves, any more than we asked for the hand that history dealt us in our youth. Now I belong to a disappearing generation, perhaps five million in all, forever bonded by the tests we faced so long ago. |