"It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers."

"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."

"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

"The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth."

"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

"At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy."

"On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made."

"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."

"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."

"Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems."

"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."

"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."

"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."

"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."

"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."

"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."

"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."

"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."

"It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%."