08/15/1997
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"I want to congratulate you for being selected as empowerment zones and supplemental zones and enhanced enterprise communities."
"I hope you're all very, very proud of what you have done."
"That's what public life is all about out there on the main streets of America."
"When I ran for President in 1992, I advocated setting up these empowerment zone ideas."