Bill Clinton: “Any policy we adopt must not—it cannot—run any risk of returning to…”

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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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks on the Federal Budget and an Exchange With Reporters

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