05/05/1997
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"That is a big change."
"I think they, the people of Puerto Rico, should decide."
"I know this is hard, more than anything else because it's been so hard in the last 2 months to get the facts out to the people."
"That is what gave me the leverage, your action to reduce this deficit gave me the leverage to argue that the time had come to reduce these tariffs."