O'REILLY: What do you think when you hear a fellow American citizen say that stuff about America?
CLINTON: I think it's offensive and outrageous. It's part of an atmosphere that we're in today where all kinds of things are being said, and people have to decide what they believe. And I sure don't believe the United States government was behind AIDS.
O'REILLY: When I see people jumping up and applauding when he says that and other things, that disturbs me.
CLINTON: Well Bill, this is part of the mosaic in diversity of America. I happen to think that it is just totally off base. It's so far out it's hard to even understand and take seriously.
O'REILLY: I feel sorry for Barack Obama. His whole campaign has been derailed by some loony guy. Do you feel sorry for Obama?
CLINTON: Well, I think that he made his views clear finally, that he disagreed, and that's what he had to do.

O'REILLY: OK, oil prices. You want to suspend the federal gas tax, so does John McCain, Obama doesn't. But the Democratic Party is opposed to ANWAR drilling, you voted against nuclear energy seven times, and I'm saying to myself both parties have sold the folks out on energy. Where am I going wrong?
CLINTON: I think there is plenty of blame to go around. We have not done what we should have done. Consumers, drivers, political officials, the oil companies, you name it. We're not acting like Americans, Bill. We're not in charge, and I want to put us back in charge.
O'REILLY: So are you going to change your votes on drilling and nukes?
CLINTON: Well, here's what I'm going to do. In the short term I do want a gas tax holiday, but to pay for it by putting a windfall profits tax on the oil companies. There is no basis for them to have these huge profits. I also want to take on OPEC. OPEC is a cartel, a monopoly.
O'REILLY: They don't care what you say.
CLINTON: Nine of the thirteen biggest oil producing companies that are in OPEC are also members of the WTO. I would file complaints, I would also change the law so that citizens and businesses could file anti-trust actions. We're going to begin to hold them accountable. But at the same time we've got to change the was we behave, the way we drive.

O'REILLY: OK, you know you're going to bankrupt the country with "Hil-Care," right? The health care program. Are you're going to tell me that President Clinton is going to, A, run this efficiently, and B, not bankrupt the country, when California and New York are already bankrupt?
CLINTON: If we don't get to universal health care, we will continue to bleed money. If we don't have more accountability, like through electronic medical records, we will never catch up to the fraud. If we don't make a decision, right now, that we're actually going to protect what is best about the American health care system, we won't recognize it in ten or twenty years. So I say, everybody who has health insurance, who's happy with it, you keep it. But what I am going to do is take an already existing plan, it's not government run, it's not a new bureaucracy, it's the way Congress and Federal employees get their health care, and we're going to open it up to every American ... it is a moral issue.
O'REILLY: I don't want to be paying for somebody who's taking heroin and drinking a bottle of gin a day.
CLINTON: But I assume you want to pay for some hard working family whose kid has juvenile diabetes or some woman who gets diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
O'REILLY: I do. I don't mind doing that. I think there should be safety nets.
CLINTON: Well, if we don't do it, we'll meet here again in five or ten years. We'll have more uninsured people, the prices will have continued to go up, because we will not have put into place the safeguards and the accountability that our health care system needs.

O'REILLY: Your husband and I make a lot of money, did you know that?
CLINTON: I've heard that.
O'REILLY: And you, if you're President, are going to take more of my money and your husband's money away?
CLINTON: It's only for the people making more than $250,000, so that we can cut middle class taxes.
O'REILLY: That's income redistribution. And income redistribution is why some conservatives don't like you, because you take from the wealthy and you give to the less affluent. That has a socialist component.
CLINTON: Our country works better when we're all in it together ... all I want to do is get back to what worked in the nineties. In the nineties we had one of the strongest, fairest economies we've ever had. Did people like you and me pay a little bit more? We sure did. But so did everybody else benefit because middle class taxes stayed pretty even.

O'REILLY: People say it's not a big difference between you and Barack Obama in overall philosophy. It's a personality run, which is why before Reverend Wright derailed him, Barack Obama had some momentum, because you're a more polarizing personality than he is. Would you agree with that?
CLINTON: Well, I've been around a long time. I bear a lot of the scars of the ideological and the political battles. I stand up for what I believe in. I've been doing that for fifteen years ... and we got to have a President who's a fighter again.
O'REILLY: Are you surprised that Fox News has been fairer to you than NBC News and a lot of the other liberal news networks?
CLINTON: I am not a pundit or a commentator. I'm running for the toughest job in the world, and it goes with the territory.
O'REILLY: So you're not going to tell me whether you're surprised?
CLINTON: I think a lot of people know that this is a campaign of firsts. Us sitting down today, another first in this campaign.