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...Perot make your task easier by getting people to focus on the fact that some of the solutions will be painful...
...been a two-person race, the popular margin would have been greater, but the electoral margin might have been slightly tighter. It's hard to calculate because some states were so close. I think what I have a mandate to do from the people who voted for Clinton and Perot, and some of the people even who voted for Bush, is to try to make the government work again, to strengthen the economy to solve problems, to represent the people at large rather than just the people who are organized and have great wealth...
...this whole emphasis on political reform. When I became the nominee of the Democratic Party, in a country that hadn't voted for a Democrat in a long time, there were all these people who wanted political reform but weren't sure any Democrat could deliver it. So when Perot got the vote he got, that really gave me the impetus to stick with the political reform. I think this will open the system to making tougher decisions...
...present one-year ban. Clinton's White House staff members would be barred for the same period from lobbying any agency for which they had "substantial personal responsibility." All appointees must promise never to lobby on behalf of foreign political parties or governments -- now a common practice that Ross Perot once called "economic treason...
...confidence in public officials is so low," Clinton has said. "It ought to be, because of the dominance of special interests over the political process and especially over the campaign-finance process. That's why I strongly support campaign-finance reform." Clinton is concerned as well because of Ross Perot. "Let's face it," says a Clinton aide, "the 20 million people who voted for Perot are the swing voters from now on, and they want reform. The burden's on us to do something real, not just cosmetic. It's a case of good policy being smart politics...