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On the recordJune 27, 2013
Those countries where businesses can feel confident that there will be peaceful transitions of power, that corruption is prosecuted, where there's rule of law, where there's protection of private property, where the government is practical and not wildly ideological; that is what will attract American businesses.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One En Route to Johannesburg

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