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Bill Clinton: “You know, the most important job of any society is raising children.”

On the recordDecember 9, 1999
You know, the most important job of any society is raising children.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Chamber of Commerce in Little Rock, Arkansas

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