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Matt Salmon: I think that the most important thing that we export is not a commodity, it is actually an ideal. And that ideal is…

On the recordMarch 3, 2015
I think that the most important thing that we export is not a commodity, it is actually an ideal. And that ideal is freedom.
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Matt Salmon
Arizona

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Salmon argues that the U.S. should promote its ideals of freedom internationally.

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