Bill Clinton actually said...

If I have learned one thing since I have been President, it is in the end we have to decide on specific matters and that rhetoric sooner or later always has to give way to reality.

Context

Remarks on the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform and an Exchange With Reporters

02/09/1994

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