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Bill Clinton: It's okay to be a liberal or a conservative, but it's not okay to be irrelevant in American politics.

On the recordJune 24, 1997
It's okay to be a liberal or a conservative, but it's not okay to be irrelevant in American politics.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Dinner for Senator Carol Moseley-Braun in Chicago, Illinois

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