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Bill Clinton: “Yes, probably, because I think we need to find out whether we can have elections without the kind of money that they…”

On the recordDecember 22, 1999
Yes, probably, because I think we need to find out whether we can have elections without the kind of money that they cost today, and we can't have them without that kind of money unless people can have access, the candidates can have access to the voters. That is, what costs all the money is access to the voters. Mr. King. Barry Goldwater had told me that he and John Kennedy had arranged that if Goldwater would be the nominee in '64, had Kennedy lived, they were going to travel around together.
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Bill Clinton
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