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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 23, 1992
Contact: Lisa Caputo
Joyce Kravitz
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REMARKS OF' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK '
AUGUST 23, 1992'
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Thank you. It is so great to be back here after only a year's
absence. I thought it would take a little longer to work out,a way
to get an invitation back, but this is just wonderful for us; We
were here last year, we enjoyed the hospitality, the opportunity to
meet so many of you who made Chautauqua your summer home and others
of you who are able to come for a week or a weekend. This is the
kind of place and the tradition that' I believe so ~ell,represent
what' is best about America'. People are coming together to share,
their views, looking for what brings us together and not divides
us, and trying always to be better informed, maybe better motivated
and certainly more caring about the world around us. So first, let
me, on behalf of my husband and myself, thank Chautauqua and thank
you, President Bratton for this invitation and this opportunity, to
be here.
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We are also pleased' to be here with the Moynihans and the
Lundines, people who represent the kind of public service that we
value,and also just delighted to have been on this, bus tour with
the Gores.
You know, people keep asking us, "What's it'really
like?" It is so .much fun to be out here in America meeting people:,'
t?llking with them, listening to them. I:.don't· know how many of you
saw what happened to us in Youngstown yesterday but a whole bridal .
party came from the wedding on the way to their reception to our
rally! And I thought, that maybe they were just stopping by, 'but
they were wearing their full regalia, all the bridesmaids and the
groom's men, and one of, them said to us, "We want' to be part' of'
changing America," and that's what we're finding all across the'
country.
You know, when Bill and I were here last year, we were here
during a week in which we talked about families. I,' must confess
the conversation was not so heated or so emotional as it was last
week in Houston. It· was more inclined to be about, "What can we" do
to help all families?"
How do we. understand the world. we . are
living in' now, which has changed so dramatically in just a '
generation?
How do those of us who' are parents navigate this
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�world? It is. harder today to be child, I think.
The kinds of
challenges and temptations that confront children make the job of
parenting and grandparenting much more difficult. Tipper wrote a
book which I think sums it up pretty well, How to Raise PG Children
in an X-Rated society, and that is pretty much what all of us are
up against.
But I think that the issues that underlie the questions being
raised in homes and churches and workplaces about families are far
more important than the kind of political rhetoric that heated up
the skies last week. What I find day after day, month after month,
is that. so many American families are coming td terms with the
stresses and the challenges they face. Last year +'.talked about
what it was like both to be someone who is concerned about family,
coromitted to· my own family,. concerned . about. other people's'
families, and to be a.woman whom I described as being on the cusp.
What .I. meant by that was a . woman between the generation of my
mother and the generation of my daughter •. And I said last year and
I' repeat today, it is a difficult journey we are on. It is hard
for both men and women to know' fully how to define themselves. in
this new world. But let's help one another. Let's not cast blame
and point fingers, let's reach out helping hands and help every man
and woman and boy and girl and family in America.
. I,. also said last year and will repeat. again that this argument
which se.ems to have consumed the .other political party about
families,. is presenting a false choice to America.
We have to
stand.up for what I thought was so. well .expressed in the recent
pastoral. letter that the National' Conference of Catholic Bishops
issued, a letter they entitled, . "putting Children and Families
First. " In that letter, they said this: "No government can love a
child, and' no policy can substitute for a family's care.
But,
government can either support or undermine families.
There. has
been an unfortunate, unnecessary and unreal polarization in'
discussion in how best to help families. The undeniable fact-is
that our children's future is shaped .both by the values of their
parents and the policies of our nation.'" And it is, time that'''we
recognize that fundamental truth that yes, every family and every
parent has to assume the responsibility for the most sacred trust·
they are given: the nurturing and care of the next generatiori~
All across this country there are families and parents
struggling to fulfill that· trust against unbelievable odds. They
have no. work, they have no health care, they have no housing, and
in too many cases, they' have no hope. There is. something for... all
of us to do no matter who we might be. We each have, I believe, a
calling that we. mayor' may not recognize but which is there for'.us.
For some it may the art, the voices we heard; for others, the
environment, and protecting and sustaining it; for others, the care
of our elderly and ,the giving of dignity to them; but for me, ever
s'ince r was a child, it- has been the care and nurturing of
children, and I believe that· is ·for two reasons. First, because I
have a family which from the very beginning of my life said tome,
ttyou are a valuable and special person. II' And they also said to me,
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"You may be'a girl, but you can do whatever you choose to do.": And
I took their
I .' took- my mother and my father's words' to heart.
belief in me and inter:nalized it·. And as I grew older I learned,
mostly from my church; that'1 have been blessed because I have· been
given a family which gave me what every family should give every
child, and what every child should have the right to expect: the
kind of love and' discipline and care and motivation that doesn' t··
say' "This is . what you must be.," or "You are' wrong," but· says, "Here
is what God meant. for you to be and we will give you the help we
. can to develop the gifts that God gave you in your life.'"
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What my church taught me is because rhad those blessings from
that family, I: owed something back. That it would not be enough if:
I were successful and grew to have-the kind of wonderful marriage
and love and partnership that I am blessed with, the family that,1:~
have and cherish, the· opportunity to be better off than I.:. ever.
dreamed possible -- that would not be enough. 'So from an early age
my church said.to me, "Yes, your '"personal salvation is important,
but. yqu""have a 'scripturally ordained responsibility to reach out-:
and help others as well.'" And for me that took the shape early on
in caring about· children, and doing what I could to try to give
them whatever 1. thought r' have received. from my own family that"
might make their way in life a little easier, a·little better-. And
Lstarted with the Children's Defense Fund in 1970, and am as proud:'
to stand 'here today as a staff member, aboard member, a chair of::.
the board" of what I believe to have been the greatest child'
adv~cacy organization
in this country 'that stands. for. the'
proposition that every child deserves a chance and no child should
be left behind in a country as rich as. ours.
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And so, what I would ask today is 'whatmy husband, and AI, and
Tipper, and I have been asking and. saying at stops all over this'
great country. Let us live with the vision in our minds of' what:
this country can be. Let us recognize the reality around us~ L·et·~
us know that every 13 seconds a child is . abused and neglected;
. every 53 minutes a child dies from .the effects. of poverty in this:,..
country; and, as Tipper said, every thr.ee.hours a child in America
is murdered.
But. then let us look those horrific facts and 'ask>
ourselves, "What can we do to try to make a . difference?'" Let's-"
start with. our own families· and the children .closest to us, but~
then reach out in a .wonderful outreach of care and hope, so that. in':
years to come, we. can have conferences here in Chautauqua in which ~.
we talk about· how we' turned the tide· and helped families, because·.
we secured their economic futures, we gave them back the dignity. of'"
work, we changed the· debilitating welfare system, we provided
health care for every person, and we gave our young people'an'
education that will enable them·to be competitive and.productive.
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You know, at the end of the Cold war,' this country's.: best .
years are before us.
But one. of .the things r learned early on,'
advocating for children, sometimes representing children which have
been terribly abused and terribly neglected; I learned that. a year
in the life of a two-year old is half their life. Five years in
the life of a' ten-year old is half their life.· We have to' move
�now. We have to
waiting I waiting,
family give them
for every child.
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care now. There are too many American children,
waiting and hoping that you and I will help their
what I' took for granted and· what we should want·
Thank you all very much.
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