"Everything we hope to do, depends on an expanding economic pie. And only a vibrant, competitive, thriving private sector can create that. Government is a necessary partner, but it is the junior partner. Only the private sector can produce the revenues for the social programs that we Democrats care so much about. The financing of those programs through ever more public debt violates our generation responsibility."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesMembers of the United States SenatePoliticians from MassachusettsUnited States presidential candidates, 1992
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Paul Tsongas
Paul Efthemios Tsongas (14 February 1941 – 18 January 1997) was an American politician. He represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress, holding office from 1975 to 1985. He won eight states as a candidate in the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries, losing the nomination to Bill Clinton.
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