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Bill Clinton: Let us realize the deficit is too big and the debt is much too large as a percentage of our gross national product.

On the recordDecember 12, 1993
Let us realize the deficit is too big and the debt is much too large as a percentage of our gross national product.
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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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