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Bill Clinton: Any policy we adopt must not—it cannot—run any risk of returning to the failed policies of the past.

On the recordJanuary 4, 1998
Any policy we adopt must not—it cannot—run any risk of returning to the failed policies of the past.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks on the Federal Budget and an Exchange With Reporters

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