Political Candor Quotes
The ex-president was speaking at the 9-11 memorial park where American Heroes fought the hijackers who wanted to crash Flight 93 into the White House and crashed the plane with all onboard dead. The Department of the Interior and millions of Americans had planned a memorial, but after 10 years from 9-11, they were still $10 million short of the needed amount. Congress was polarized about spending any money for everything that was not military or security oriented. Millions of other Americans didn’t want the Federal Government to spend another dollar. Politicians were afraid to ask for funds at the time. Clinton endorsed the need for the money from private and public sources and told the politicians, the corporations and the public. He ended his urging with the words of the heroes of the hijacked plan heroes when the decided to fight back, knowing that they would probably die. Clinton’s audience found the speech inspiring and it was far from unpopular, but it was vintage Clinton, at that point, the most popular politician in the nation.
