Presidentially Speaking?
May 24, 2000
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GEORGE W. BUSH, IN HIS OWN WORDS "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" -- Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000. "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" -- Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000. "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." -- Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -- Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000. "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate. Quotas, I think, vulcanize society. So, I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position." -- Quoted by Molly Ivins, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." -- Iowa Western Community College, Jan. 21, 2000. AL GORE QUOTES (fair is fair!) Clinton/Gore inauguration day, at Monticello: Gore to tour guide, referring to four busts in a room - "And who are these people?" Tour guide - "Well, that's George Washington, that's Ben Franklin ..." "A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992. "We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many." Whoops -- got it backwards, Al. Appropo. In 1996, Al Gore visited a school in a largely Hispanic portion of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In an effort to fit in, he decided it would be appropriate to say something in Spanish as he took the stage. He was supposed to say "Muchas Gracias" -- many thanks. Instead, he walked on stage saying "Machismo Gracias" -- roughly translated to "manliness thanks." "We feel, and the Defense Department feels, that problem is not going to be a problem. Of course, it can't be a problem. We won't allow it to be a problem. ... We're confident that it is going to be solved, but we're going to be doubly, triply, and quadruply confident that it's going to be solved before September of this year." Al Gore, speaking about the Y2K problem in the San Jose Mercury News. From the Associated Press, 09/04/98 - "Gore (the father of the Internet) smiled and admitted that he, too, has trouble turning on a computer -- let alone using one." At a Minnesota fundraiser -- "They will be the education team that Missouri needs to move into the 21st century," he said. Courtney Love on Late Night with David Letterman, 05/20/1999 - "He goes 'I'm a really big fan,' " said Love. "And I was like 'Yeah, right. Name a song, Al.' " The answer came limply back: "I can't name a song, I'm just a really big fan." Despite his high-minded enviro-speech and manifesto, Al Gore caused billions of gallons of water in Connecticut to be wasted when a dam was opened so the water level of a river could be raised for a cutesy photo-op. Gore claimed he didn't know about illegal hard-money fund-raising in 1996 because he had drunk too much tea and had to frequently relieve himself. This came after several previous lies he told about the fund-raising were exposed. Yet another lie -- Gore claimed credit for writing the earned income tax credit proposal, which became law a year before Gore was first elected to the House of Representatives. Gore claimed to have co-sponsored the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform bill -- which was introduced after Gore became vice president and could not co-sponsor legislation.
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