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Bill Clinton: It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other.

On the recordJanuary 19, 1993
It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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