07/08/1999
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"I just think it's inevitable, just as inevitably the Berlin Wall fell."
"Bill Clinton predicted that trade would open China's political system. Chinese democracy, he said, was 'inevitable, just like when the Berlin Wall fell.'"
"trade and economic changes in China would help to increase the spirit of liberty over time."
"But I want you to take just one minute to think of where we are and what it means. This country began here. Right here. With people who pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor, to form..."