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Bill Clinton: No, I'm not interested in censorship. What I'm interested in is asking all of us in American society to be accountable…

On the recordSeptember 21, 1995
No, I'm not interested in censorship. What I'm interested in is asking all of us in American society to be accountable for what we do. You can't say the first amendment makes you unaccountable. The more freedom you have, the more responsibility you have to exercise, in any area of life. And I think these things should become open for public debate, not because we want to gag people with laws, not because we want to be unrealistic but because our children, large numbers of our children are in deep trouble, and we all ought to be trying to rescue as many of them as we can and give them a good start in life. Mr. King. This is Westwood One. You're listening to Larry King with President Bill Clinton. [The stations took a commercial break.]
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