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Bill Clinton: If there is going to be a risk taken, I'd rather take it than have the Government take it for me.

On the recordJuly 26, 1998
If there is going to be a risk taken, I'd rather take it than have the Government take it for me.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in a National Social Security Forum Townhall Meeting in Albuquerque

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