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Bill Clinton: “We are going to have to be very strong, and to be strong you have to be prepared to take strong action if your words…”

On the recordMay 3, 1995
We are going to have to be very strong, and to be strong you have to be prepared to take strong action if your words fail.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Interview With Laurie Montgomery of the Detroit Free Press and Angie Cannon of Knight-Ridder Newspapers

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