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Bill Clinton

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Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

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Jul 2, 1993

Every job it creates, every policeman or policewoman it rehires, every farm devastated by weather it assists, and every small business it enables to grow will make a difference to the people and communities served by this legislation.

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Jul 2, 1993

I am pleased to sign into law last night a modest job creating bill, H.R. 2118, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993.

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Jul 2, 1993

I commend the Congress for developing a supplemental appropriations bill that supports my investment program and meets urgent National needs.

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Jul 2, 1993

This bill does not nearly provide what I believe is necessary to help our economy.

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Jul 1, 1993

Today's news that Germany has cut interest rates again is welcome news. With over 22 million people out of work in Europe, and our economy at last beginning to create jobs again, Germany's responsible fiscal and monetary actions could not…

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Jul 1, 1993

I don't know. I need to be briefed on what he said. But of course, they shouldn't act in revenge. We have evidence that what was done was wrong, and the United States had to respond.

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Jul 1, 1993

First of all, that he had come from such humble circumstances to go to college and to stay in college and that he had made the most of it. He obviously never felt sorry for himself. He obviously had a mother who helped him to believe in…

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Jul 1, 1993

Hello, everybody. Those of you who travel with me regularly will, I think, recognize the young man on my right, Mr. Doug Luffborough. He was the student speaker at Northeastern University in Boston the other day. This is his mother, whom I…

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Jul 1, 1993

Well, we're going to pass a good economic package. I feel confident about that. And we're now trying to work out the differences in the House and the Senate, and I'll have more to say about that in a few days.

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Jul 1, 1993

We're going to work out exactly what we have to do. It appears that in order to deal with the losses, we'll have to go back to the Congress. I do not believe there are sufficient funds in the discretionary emergency accounts that I have to…

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Jul 1, 1993

Well, he's going to brief me as soon as he knows. I think we'll have to watch it. The corn crop is very stunted because of the rain, and this is soybean planting time and coming to the end of it. So there's not a dramatic turnaround in…

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Jul 1, 1993

That's what Secretary Espy and I were just talking about. We don't have enough money in the discretionary emergency fund to meet the rather massive losses that a lot of these farmers are facing. And so I expect he will come to me with some…

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Jul 1, 1993

I think the direction of the G-7 meeting is more important than the declaration.

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Jul 1, 1993

I urge that the Congress act as soon as possible to approve the 'Agreement on Trade Relations Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Romania'.

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Jul 1, 1993

I think that there are things that we need to do in our trade relationship that will benefit both of us.

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Jul 1, 1993

The time is to change, to be innovative, to be creative, and to reach out.

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Jul 1, 1993

I do think we have the votes to pass NAFTA in the United States Senate.

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Jul 1, 1993

I believe that our goal ought to be to find ways to make preserving the environment good economics.

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Jul 1, 1993

We had an honest disagreement about what the right policy to follow was.

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Jul 1, 1993

I hope we will discuss a lot of our bilateral economic as well as strategic concerns there.

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Jul 1, 1993

I do not believe the United States or Europe should send huge numbers of soldiers there to get involved in a civil war on one side or the other.

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