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Joe Biden: “I believe that we have a moral obligation to leave this planet better than we found it.”

On the recordApril 22, 2007
I believe that we have a moral obligation to leave this planet better than we found it.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Speech at the National Press Club

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