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Bill Clinton: When ordinary citizens in this country do well, when poor people have a chance to work their way into in the middle…

On the recordJuly 12, 1999
When ordinary citizens in this country do well, when poor people have a chance to work their way into in the middle class, the rest of us who have been gifted and blessed and are lucky as sin do just fine.
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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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