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Bill Clinton: “It is important that the debt, as a percentage of our annual income, go down.”

On the recordDecember 12, 1993
It is important that the debt, as a percentage of our annual income, go down.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Conference on Entitlements in Bryn Mawr

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