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Barack Obama: The private sector — not government — is, was, and always will be the source of America's economic success.

On the recordJuly 8, 2010
The private sector — not government — is, was, and always will be the source of America's economic success.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release: Remarks of President Barack Obama in Las Vegas

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