The President's Radio Address
10/27/2000
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We need to find a way to go beyond partisanship to reach some national consensus on issues of trade and innovation.
Cuba's system is at a dead end politically, economically, and spiritually.
I hope that it will be my privilege as President to welcome a free Cuba back into the community of democratic nations.
You would not run a family, a business, a charitable organization, a local project in the way our national politics is too often run.