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Bill Clinton: “A society is not a collection of people pursuing their individual economic, material self-interests.”

On the recordJune 10, 1995
A society is not a collection of people pursuing their individual economic, material self-interests.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Ceremony in Hanover

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