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Bill Clinton: The greater cost is to keep on doing what we're doing and letting America go bankrupt.

On the recordOctober 2, 1993
The greater cost is to keep on doing what we're doing and letting America go bankrupt.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Community in Sacramento, California

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