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Bill Clinton: I know he did, but let me go back to what I said before. There are also a lot of people working against NAFTA who voted…

On the recordNovember 12, 1993
I know he did, but let me go back to what I said before. There are also a lot of people working against NAFTA who voted for me last time. What I have got to do is to try to develop a majority for change in the Congress. It's funny, I think the American people--I see the Wall Street Journal said the other day that 70 percent of the people thought there was just as much gridlock now as there had been, and that's plainly not true. It's not true. What they're doing is, we're making hard decisions by narrow margins. That's very different than not taking up hard questions because there's gridlock. So when people read about all this contentiousness, they shouldn't be deterred by that. These are tough issues. If they were easy issues, they'd have been handled years ago. But making hard decisions by narrow margins is breaking gridlock. I've just got to keep working with David Mann on one hand or my friend David Bonior on the other hand and with the Republicans who are going to vote with us on this. We've got to create a majority for responsible change. That's what we've got to do.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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