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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

The United States will lead a global effort to eliminate these terrible weapons and to stop the enormous loss of human life.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I think it’s worth pointing out that there are literally millions of people out there working in partnerships trying to make their companies more profitable, their lives better, and their country stronger.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I wanted to change the perception that there were no companies in America that cared about the employees and that were sticking up for them and trying to do right by them.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

The award will celebrate business for the quality of their relationship to their workers and their communities.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I wanted this to be a country where every person, without regard to race or gender or income, would have a chance to live out his or her dreams.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I'm delighted that the Inter-American Dialogue is also intensifying its work.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I believe we should do more because, under the proposal, kids in this country would still be confronted with Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man on billboards and stores and all the magazines.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

Participation in deferred profit-sharing plans has grown from 8.4 percent of the work force in 1980 to 18.3 percent in 1991.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

The economy is changing more than it has in a hundred years, moving into this information technology age, moving into this global economy.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

We're determined that lands around the world will never again be sown with terror.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I will do everything I can to implement them all, including the international agreement to ban all antipersonnel mines, as quickly as possible.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I thank you all for all you have done to help define and shape the currents that flow deeper today in our hemisphere because of your work: democracy, market economics, justice, and growing partnership.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I will propose a resolution at the 51st United Nations General Assembly this fall, urging the nations of the world to support a worldwide ban on landmines.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

I hereby determine that it is in the national security interest of the United States to make funds available for assistance in support of Turkey notwithstanding the restriction in subsection (a) of section 562.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

Today I am launching an international effort to ban antipersonnel landmines.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

We have always believed that free markets and free enterprise made our whole country stronger.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· May 15, 1996

Until an international ban takes effect, the United States will reserve the right to use socalled smart mines or self-destructing mines as necessary.

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