07/14/1999
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"We cannot grow the American economy in the 21st century if we continue to have pockets of abject poverty where people are dying to go to work."
"Any program that does not meet the constitutional standard must be reformed or eliminated."
"The lesson we learned was a hard one."
"Let me be clear about what affirmative action must not mean and what I won't allow it to be."