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Bill Clinton: To retreat from responsibility is to invite instability.

On the recordOctober 4, 2000
To retreat from responsibility is to invite instability.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Conference on the Progressive Tradition in Princeton, New Jersey

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