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Bill Clinton: “I predict to you that 10 years from now, when your 10 grandchildren are all getting up there, it will be the…”

On the recordJuly 12, 1999
I predict to you that 10 years from now, when your 10 grandchildren are all getting up there, it will be the conventional wisdom all around the world that wealthy countries ought to be debt-free.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Democratic National Committee Dinner in Coral Gables, Florida

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