Bill Clinton: There Is No One ‘Better Qualified’ To Be President than Hillary

“And here's what I concluded. Almost everybody goes into the White House with the best of intentions. Whether they succeed or not depends upon whether their instincts, their experience, their knowledge and their psychological makeup fits the time. 

Franklin Pierce’s only child was killed in a railroad accident when he was on the way to become president. He and his wife were depressed for a year and the country was coming apart at the seams anyway. I think there are almost no circumstances under which he could have succeeded, but he had a great career in the Mexican war. He had a good career in Congress. He was a good governor here. The times took him out. 

Abraham Lincoln, had he governed in the 1950s, might never have been regarded as a great president because he was gripped by crippling depression. It was only in the blood of the civil war that somehow he burned through his own feelings and absorbed the grief of the nation and let his depression go. 

I spent a lot of time thinking about this. I do not believe in my lifetime anybody has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better qualified by knowledge, experience and temperament to do what needs to be done now to restore prosperity, to deal with these human issues, to make us as safe as possible. Thank you very much and God bless you. (Applause)”