President-Elect Clinton got this real fast. And I think that, perhaps more than anything, convinced him that he would have to take on this issue. And that was an important step. One, Edmund Burke made the point when he was in Parliament that people elected him to exercise his conscience, and that if he betrayed his conscience he betrayed his people. And I'm a believer in that philosophy, I think people elect you to exercise your conscience as to what you think is right or wrong.
Leadership is what our system of government is all about.
Our forefathers created this magnificent system of three separate but equal branches of government, but it's a perfect formula for gridlock unless you've got people who are willing to lead. They believed that that leadership would be there. They believed that a wise and virtuous people would elect wise and virtuous leaders. But leadership demands risks. I think one of the problems in politics today is that leaders don't want to take those risks.