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Bill Clinton: “Competition is good, but the failure of our competitors is bad.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 1999
Competition is good, but the failure of our competitors is bad.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Global Forum for Reinventing Government

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