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Bill Clinton: Social Security--you cannot physically get 100 percent. There's no way to get 100 percent. Social Security only has 98…

On the recordJuly 19, 1994
Social Security--you cannot physically get 100 percent. There's no way to get 100 percent. Social Security only has 98, and they've just moved from 97 a couple years ago. But I think you have to have a universal coverage goal because if you don't have the idea of trying to essentially have functionally full coverage--whatever that is, it's a very high percentage--then the rest of these reforms will not work. So my olive branch came because he said he was willing to work every day in August, every day in September, and every day in October, and I liked that.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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