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Bill Clinton: If we want to use government to help people, we have got to make it work again.

On the recordJuly 15, 1992
If we want to use government to help people, we have got to make it work again.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York

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