    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1993, Book II)]
    [October 28, 1993]
    [Pages 1849-1850]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Telephone Remarks to the Queens County Democratic Dinner in
    New York City
    October 28, 1993

        Hello. Thank you very much, Tom.
        Ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be with you, even by telephone.
    I was here tonight on behalf of Mayor Dinkins, with Congressman Manton
    and Congressman Ackerman and Congressman Floyd Flake, Congresswoman
    Carolyn Maloney, and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez. We think we did some
    good for Mayor Dinkins here tonight. And I know you will on election
    day.
        I was just reminiscing with Tom about the time when I came to your
    meeting last year in early 1992 when I took the subway from Manhattan
    and I came out to Queens to the meeting, and your organization got
    behind me early and stayed with me through the dark days and the bright
    ones. And I will never forget it. And I want you to know that I am still
    as grateful to you today as I was on the day we won the New York primary
    and the day we won the general election.
        I also want you to know that we're making progress on all the things
    that I talked about in Queens so long ago. We just got the report today
    that the Government's deficit is over $50 billion less this year than we
    thought it was going to be; that we've got some real growth back in the
    economy; and that more jobs have been created in the private sector in
    the first 9 months of this administration than in the previous 4 years
    of the last one.
        Now, we've still got a long way to go, and we've got a lot of work
    to do. I need your help to pass a comprehensive health care bill that
    gives health care security to all the people who live in Queens. And
    we've got a chance now to pass a crime bill that will put more police
    officers on the street, and pass the Brady bill and other bills that
    will keep some of these terrible guns out of the hands of kids and
    others who are using them in the wrong way. We've got to do that. And I
    need your help to do that.
        But I want you to know we're moving in the right direction, and
    we're not going to stop until we've got this economy up and going,
    provided health care for all, and made our streets safer.

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        To do all that, I need to just remember the kind of people I met at
    the Queens Democratic meeting the first time I came up there. I want you
    to know I'll never forget you, and I'm grateful to you. I want you to
    stay behind your Members of Congress so they can stay behind me, and
    help elect the Mayor on Tuesday.
        Thank you very much.

    Note. The President spoke at 6:47 p.m. from Electric Industries Hall. In
    his remarks, he referred to Representative Thomas J. Manton.