Bill Clinton: “Are we going to empower people and challenge them to assume…”

On the recordOctober 20, 1994

Are we going to empower people and challenge them to assume responsibility, or are we going to make them a bunch of cheap promises in a power grab?

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Remarks at the Kennedy-King Dinner in Alexandria, Virginia

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