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Mick Mulvaney: “Great countries are not destroyed from without; they rot from within.”

On the recordMay 23, 2017
Great countries are not destroyed from without; they rot from within.
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Mick Mulvaney
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Mulvaney reflects on the internal dangers posed by national debt.

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