[Optimist]

"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people." - during an interview on MTV in 1993

you have got to be kidding!!! (but somehow entirely believable)
I missed that one.

[anniegetyourgun]

There must be something in the air over on the MTV set. That's the same place that Al Bore did his little talk about how the US Constitution is a living, breathing document that be interpreted differently at different times.

[WindMinstrel]

Other good Clinton quotes about how we're too free:

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
-- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . .
-- Bill Clinton, March 1, 1993, during a press conference in Piscataway, N.J. (Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3; and USA Today, 3/11/93

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.
-- Bill Clinton, April 20, 1993

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly . . . [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.
-- Bill Clinton, MTV's "Enough is Enough," March 22, 1994