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Bill Clinton: “The international drug trade poisons people, breeds violence, tears at the moral fabric of our society.”

On the recordOctober 21, 1995
The international drug trade poisons people, breeds violence, tears at the moral fabric of our society.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City

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