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Bill Clinton: Well, I believe that the United States--I think there's no question, about what you said, about the whole issue about…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1994
Well, I believe that the United States--I think there's no question, about what you said, about the whole issue about the public support--but that's because immigration has gotten off the front page and the nature of the U.N. commitment got off the front page. And I understand that, and I'm sympathetic, and we were doing a lot of other things in America, you know, a lot of things at home. But, you know, we asked for this report from the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights. He gave it to me. Just in the last few days we had the New York Times story on the orphans being killed. It's just getting worse, and I am--I am very angry. Those people gave their word to the United States and the United Nations at Governors Island. And we gave our word to them. We kept our word to them. They broke their word to us. They went about committing this kind of atrocity. And I have bent over backwards. I have used sanctions and everything else. I have also not had the United States be the Lone Ranger. We had the U.N. come in here. The United Nations has asked us to move, and we have all these other countries. And it is--this is senseless, and it needs to stop.
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Bill Clinton
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