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Bill Clinton: I think it would be difficult for relations to be completely normal. I think we could certainly do a lot more for food…

On the recordNovember 5, 1999
I think it would be difficult for relations to be completely normal. I think we could certainly do a lot more for food, for medicine, in other ways, if the circumstances were right. And I think that if there were a clear commitment to a transition to democracy and human rights, which were clear and verifiable, I think that you could see some really dramatic changes. I think--you know, if we could just have a commitment to have no more shootings, like the shootings of the airplanes, and to have no more clear oppressings of human rights, it would be easier. I think the American people would like to be reconciled with the Cuban people. And I think we are--it is painful. It's painful most of all, I think, for the Cuban-Americans. Ms. Salazar. Definitely. I come from that group. They tell me two more questions. I need to do Colombia, and I need to do Vieques. I need to do two more.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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