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Jim DeMint: The people who fomented change in Egypt, in Libya and Yemen, throughout many parts of the world back during the fall of…

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
The people who fomented change in Egypt, in Libya and Yemen, throughout many parts of the world back during the fall of the Soviet Union, did not do so to live under another dictatorship.
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Jim DeMint
Republican · South Carolina

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Remarks on the aspirations for freedom and prosperity in countries undergoing change.

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