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“Please
get your facts straight. If you want to be president of the United States,
you better start by being accurate.”
- Michael Dukakis to Al Gore (1988 Democratic Presidential Debate,
2/18/88)
Tired of enduring Al Gore’s endless misrepresentation of the truth during the 2000 Democratic primary, in December, candidate Bill Bradley’s campaign issued a pamphlet dealing with Gore’s inability to tell the truth:
“The [Bradley] pamphlet, which addressed the issue of prescription drugs, accuses Gore of ‘uncontrollable lying,’ a disease described as ‘Gore-itis’. . . . The pamphlet, labeled a ‘prescription form,’ describes a mock disease requiring a treatment with truth serum. ‘Al Gore needs to tell the truth,’ it said.” (The Associated Press, 12/11/99)
"We smoked more
than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car,
in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house… we smoked
on weekends. We smoked a lot… [T]he perpetuation of… silence over time
has allowed us to go on jailing kids… who are much younger and less equipped
to deal with life than Al Gore was when we were using drugs together."
--John C. Warnecke on his relationship with Al Gore and on U.S. drug
policy
"Why should we
believe you will tell the truth as president if you don't tell the truth
as a candidate?"
- Bill Bradley to Al Gore, Jan. 26, 2000
*The following quotes were compiled by Carolyn Gargaro, co-founder of Rightgrrl.com. They are originally located at http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html. Be sure to also check out the Not Gore Quotes page.
$100,000 worth of new lab equipment means overcrowding
In the October 3,
2000 Presidential debate, Gore said he'd received a letter from the father
of a 15-year-old Sarasota High School student. "Her science class was
supposed to be for 24 students," Gore said the man told him. "She is the
36th student in that classroom," Gore related, and he said the father
sent him a picture of the girl in her class. "They can't squeeze another
desk in for her, so she has to stand during class," Gore told the
audience. Gore used the illustration to drive home the point that he wants
the federal government "to make improvement of our school the number one
priority."
However, Daniel Kennedy, Principal of Sarasota High School complained
that Gore had exaggerated the overcrowding. "We have a brand-new campus.
It's like a college. It's one of the top schools in the nation," he stated.
The school is well under capacity and has plenty of space and desks. If
Kailey didn't have a desk the first few days of school, he said, it was
because $100,000 of new science equipment was sitting in boxes and taking
up space on opening day, andthere were plenty of lab stools to sit on.
(Sources: New York Post 10/05/00 "Al
Can't Keep His Stories Straight"
Washington Post, 10/05/00)
Collecting cans for prescription drug benefits!
During the October
3, 2000 Presidential debate, Gore mentioned 79-year-old Winifred Skinner,
who has become the campaign's mascot for his Medicare prescription-drug
program. "In order to pay for her prescription drug benefits, she has
to go out seven days a week, several hours a day, picking up cans,"
Gore said. "She came all the way from Iowa in a Winnebago with her poodle
in order to attend here tonight."
However, Skinner doesn't need to collect cans for her medication. Her
son, Earl King, who formerly owned his own business and now lives on an
80-acre ranch and describes his lifestyle as "comfortable," has offered
repeatedly to help her make ends meet. She continually declines his offers.
In addition, the Winnebago Gore referred to, as well as the gas, was paid
for by the Gore campaign. Five campaign workers accompanied Skinner, a
longtime Democrat and former union organizer.
(Source: New York Post, October 5, 2000 "Gore's nose is growing again"
Washington Post, October 5, 2000, page A20)
I was there with James Lee Witt...oh, wait....
In
the Presidential debate on October 3, 2000, Governor George W. Bush
gave credit to the Federal Emergency Management Service (FEMA) for their
work in Texas during fires and floods in Parker County. Vice President
Al Gore said he had traveled to see the damage with FEMA director James
Lee Witt, "I was down there when the fires broke up." Carl Cameron,
of Fox News first reported that Gore had not, in fact, been to Texas
with Witt to look at the damage in Parker County. Gore WAS in Texas,
not not to help FEMA -- A Federal News Service schedule showed that
he was at a fundraiser. FEMA officials said Witt never went to Texas
to deal with the 1998 fires.
"If James Lee was there before or after, then you know, I got that wrong
then," Gore said on ABC's Good Morning America on October 4, 2000.
(Source: New York Post, October 5, 2000 "Gore's nose is growing again")
I was part of those discussions! Really!
At
a Sept. 22 press conference, Gore stated "I've been a part of the
discussions on the strategic reserve since the days when it was first
established." However, President Ford established the Strategic
Petroleum Reserves when he signed the Energy Policy and Conservation
Act (EPCA) on December 22, 1975 — two years before Al Gore became a
congressman
(Source: Washington Post, Sept. 24 2000)
A dog's health care costs less than my mother-in-law's!
Vice
President Al Gore, reaching for a personal example to illustrate the
breathtaking costs of some prescription drugs, told seniors in Florida
last month that his mother-in-law pays nearly three times as much for
the same arthritis medicine used for his ailing dog, Shiloh. "That's
pretty bad when you have got to pretend to be a dog or a cat to get
a price break" he stated. Gore's mother-in-law does pay more for
her medication, but the generic brand of the drug, which 85% of Americans
now use as a cheaper alternative, costs half as much, or one and a half
times what it costs for the pooch - not three times. In addition, given
the complexities of the marketplace, and the steps people take to get
a better deal, it can work the other way around: Pets "pretending" to
be humans. The Gore campaign also admitted that it lifted those costs
not from his family's bills, but from a House Democratic study, and
that Gore misused even those numbers: They represent the manufacturer's
price to wholesalers, not the retail price of the brand-name product.
Drug costs often cost more for humans, though, because they are more
heavily regulated. Jeff Trewhett, the spokesman for the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers Association of America, said the higher costs
for the human version of patented drugs is justified because the research,
development, and approval costs can surpass $500 million per drug. But
once the drug is approved for humans, the cost to test and approve it
for animals is minimal, he said. Interestingly enough, Gore is proposing
more regulations on on top of what we have now. Our food also
costs 3 times as much as the dog's... will Gore say that we have to
pretend to be dogs to get affordable food?
Dairy Farm Expert in a Day
Milwaukee, WI - "I'm very
familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent
the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with
the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what
the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about."
(Sources: Sunday, June 18, Atlanta Journal Constitution and The
Washington Post, June 14, 2000)
Hey! I am an expert in hospital administration in NJ, and the hotel
industry in several states - having spent more than on night there!
Let's play "Insult the Host"
Gore sometimes shows publicly
that he lacks Clinton's finesse. Take a reception in Los Angeles last
month. It was Gore's moment to shine before donors who ponied up $2.8
million. But he wound up egg-faced when he compared electing a
Republican as president to rejecting an Oscar-winning team in favor
of the producers of the Hollywood clunker ''Howard the Duck.'' One
of the evening's hosts, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was a driving force behind
''Howard the Duck.'' The crowd tittered.
(Source: USA
Today, May 8, 2000)
Hey! It's Super Tuesday... oh wait...
(Source: Houston Chronicle 3/8/2000 by Houston Chronicle News Services)
The Republicans controlled the Senate in '93? Do the Democrats know this?
From Meet
the Press 12/19/99
MR. RUSSERT: Senator, what did you think of the 1996 Clinton-Gore
campaign's approach to fund-raising?
MR. BRADLEY: I thought that a lot of people in politics were embarrassed
by it, quite frankly. I think Republicans and Democrats were disgraceful
in that fund-raising program in 1996. Now, I think Al had the right
point. It's the lessons that you learn. In 1990, I raised a lot of
money for my Senate race. I raised too much money. I discovered that
you can have too much money in a political campaign. I think that's
what George Bush is going to discover. Now, in Al's case, the attorney
general investigated it fully and determined that an independent counsel
was not needed. And so - and the Republicans might make that an issue,
but that's the reality. But I think the question is what you learn
from this. And what I learned is that you've had seven years to actually
do something on campaign-finance reform, and nothing has happened.
I remember visiting the White House in 1993, Democratic Congress,
both Senate and House, and urging the president to act on campaign-finance
reform. Now, I don't know if you were in the loop or not, but the
fact of the matter is that no action took place. And when we say what
we...
VICE PRES. GORE: Because all the Republicans voted against it.
MR. BRADLEY: ...what we need to do...
VICE PRES. GORE: And they controlled the Senate.
MR. BRADLEY: ...what we - where was the effort made, Al, in 1993?
VICE PRES. GORE: We got every single Democratic senator to vote
for it.
"During my service in the
United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from
another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of
New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9,
1999.
Gore supported technological advances related to the advancement of
the Internet, but to say that HE took the initiative in
creating the Internet is a bit much.
(Sources: Transcript: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09
/president.2000/transcript.gore/index.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18390.html)
(Note: Lots of people seem to enjoy e-mailing me, professing that
my information about Gore saying he "invented" the Internet is wrong,
that he did support things which helped get the Internet moving, etc
etc. First, I know he never said he "invented" the Internet. Please
notice the quote above. Second, saying that he took the initiative in
CREATING the Internet is still a funny statement since the Internet
was already created and being used (ex: file copying via the UUCP protocol
and e-mail) by the time he was elected to Congress. One can't take the
"initiative" to "create" something which is already created.)
A spotted Zebra.
"A zebra
does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George
Bush in 1992.
(Sources: The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95; May 13th page of the "365
stupidest things ever said, 1999 Calendar." ALL quotes from this calendar
are from a book called "The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said") The book
and calendar are by a brother and sister team called Ross and Kathryn
Petras. The original book "The 776 Stupidest things ever said" was
printed in March 1993, and the calendar was printed August 1998.)
E plu...what?
"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."
E Pluribus Unum is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States
of America, and is Latin for "out of many, one," not "out of
one, many."
(Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of
World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.)
Who ARE these people??
Listen
to Al Gore (Algore) asking who the busts of our Founding Fathers are
at Monticello before the Inauguration. DUH.Watch the video of this!
"Speaking from my own religious
tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman
gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
Hello! Mary and Joseph were not homeless!
(Sources: Press Conference at HUD, 12/22/97; George Will column,
Sunday May 17 1998)
Al Gore, giving a speech
for Yellowstone
National Park's 125th Anniversary, Albright Visitors Center, Sunday,
August 17, 1997: "When we come here, we see the longpole
pine and the Douglas fir."
Sorry Al, it's LODGEpole. There is no such thing as a LONGpole pine.
Maybe Michael Jordan hasn't
made an indelible impression on everyone outside Chicago. Speaking at
a D.C. function, Vice President Al Gore, wowed by the Bulls, said: "I
tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he. He's just unbelievable."
(Source: The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998)
Manliness Thanks!
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" (thank you very much). Instead, he walked
on stage saying "Machismo Gracias" - roughly translated to "manliness
thanks. There's a video clip of the press in Albuquerque giggling
about it and saying, "Oh well, he's trying."
(Source: KOB-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996 -- does anyone
have the exact date or can anyone confirm this?)
James who?
In his first
appearance in a nationally televised candidates forum, Gore was asked
to name a past US president from whom he drew personal inspiration.
He replied that he especially admired another "dark horse" candidate,
and a product of his home state, the great "president James Knox".
The only problem is that the history books show that nobody named
Knox ever occupied the White House. He most likely meant James Knox
Polk.
(Source: The British Sunday Times; Michael Medved of KVI radio
(570 AM based in Seattle). I am looking for a more specific
source for this, so if anyone has one, or, if this quote is not accurate,
please e-mail me)
"I certainly learned a great
deal from 3,000 town hall meetings across my home state of Tennessee
over a 16-year period" in Congress, the vice president told NPR’s Bob
Edwards.
Do the math. That’s 187 town hall meetings per year, or a meeting in
Tennessee every other day for 16 years, including weekends, holidays,
vacations, and time spent running for president in 1988 and for vice
president in 1992.
(Source: http://www.cei.org/UpdateReader.asp?ID=777)
More on Gore's vast computer knowledge
"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 quadrupally confident that it's
going to be solved before September of this year."
And I didn't even know "quadrupally" was a real word! Special thanks
to http://www.duh-2000.com
for this!
(Source: Quoted on San Jose Mercury News Gore says U.S. will be
ready for Y2K February 28, 1999.)
"I seek this office to restore
the rule of law and respect for common sense to the White House." ...
"Americans in every region and in both political parties have been shaken
by the betrayal of public trust ... and the dishonesty of the public
officials."...
"Any government official who ... lies to the United States Congress
will be fired immediately."
(Source: Seattle Times, June 29, 1987)
Gore must be talking about the standards he'd apply to a Republican
White House! After all, he referred to Clinton as "one of our greatest
presidents" at the White House Post-Impeachment Pep Rally on December
19, 1998.
Finding himself talking to
the controversial rock star Courtney Love at a Hollywood party, Mr.
Gore attempted to charm her by telling her he was a fan. Rather than
just accepting the easy compliment, Love cross-examined him.
"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."
Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the driving forces behind the campaign
to make record companies put stickers on records that contained lyrics
with sexually explicit content.
(Sources: The [London] Times, 10/1/98; Courtney Love recounted this
event on the May 20, 1999 Late Show with David Letterman)
Left-wing idiot.
Back in 1994,
Al Gore called Oliver North "the colonel of untruth" and said Mr.
North was counting on political contributions from "the extra-chromosome
right wing."
(Sources: White House Special Briefing, 10/28/94; Washington Times, September
4, 1997)
AL APOLOGIZES
Vice President Al Gore sent out a letter apologizing for his embarrassing
"extra chromosome" jibe at Oliver North supporters, saying he had
"learned an important lession [sic]. "
(Source: National Review, December 31, 1994.)
Pete Talek, a U.S. Steel employee
speaking with Al Gore: "I am a few credits shy of earning a master's
degree and could use federal funds to help defray tuition costs because
he also is putting a daughter through community college. "I worked with
a 14-inch pipe wrench for years and a coal shovel." Adding that he since
has added a computer keyboard to the list of tools he can now use.
"Gore smiled and admitted that he, too, has trouble turning on a
computer - let alone using one."
(Source: "Gore Touts Job-Training Programs at Pittsburgh Factory"
Associated Press September 4, 1998)
Al Gore visited Minneapolis
Minnesota on October 12, 1998 and raised several hundred thousand
dollars for DFL gubernatorial nominee Hubert Humphrey III and two Democratic
congressmen. Too bad he forgot which state he was in. Gore misspoke
when he tried to summarize their commitment to education. "They will
be the education team that Missouri needs to move into the 21st
century," he said.
(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 13, 1998)
"My first pledge will be
to restore integrity to the White House. And I'll fire anyone who has
lied to the American people or the United States Congress."
(Source: Al Gore, in a February 2, 1988 presidential debate)
In the spring 1998 - Gore called
The Washington Post's executive editor to tip him off on an ''error''
in the paper.
''I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of
the Earth upside down on the front page of the paper,'' Gore said.
(Source: Florida Times Union 4/3/98) Whoops
- sorry Al. There is no ''up'' in space; only on maps that orient the
Earth's surface north and south.
For more examples of Al Gore's vast knowledge of space, take a look
at the Florida
Times Union article
Gore loves tobacco.
"Throughout
most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my
own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred
it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it,
I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and
sold it.
(Source: [New York] Newsday, 2/26/88
"Sometimes,
you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."
-- Al Gore, discussing why he accepted checks from his family tobacco
farm and contributions from tobacco companies for years after the tragic
death of his sister that he spoke about so emotionally at the 1996 Democratic
convention.
(Source: "'Numbness' Let Gore Accept Tobacco Help," San Francisco
Chronicle, August 30, 1996)
A straight answer?
"The theories
- the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative
bodies and with - by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies,
ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular
cases where the circumstances make that a feasible idea... "
(Source: Vice President Al Gore, on ABC's Nightline, asked about
President Clinton's withdrawal of Lani Guinier's nomination to the
EEOC)
Is it a train? An eagle?
In a letter,
an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Delgadillo explained to Al Gore how
much they rely on the government-owned Amtrak trains to visit their
children and grandchildren in Chicago and on each coast. The couple
reminded the vice president that President Clinton relied on train
travel to reach the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. "The
train has been our main-stay," the couple states. "Yet your administration
is killing our Texas Eagle. This makes us sick."
The Texas Eagle is the Amtrak train that for years has operated between
Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio.
But facing a $243 million shortfall in 1997, Amtrak President Thomas
Downs recently targeted four Amtrak routes for elimination, including
the Texas Eagle service between St. Louis and San Antonio. "What can
you do to save our Eagle?" the couple pleaded to the vice president.
Gore
responded with:
"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Delgadillo, Thank you for your letter regarding
the protection of the Texas eagle. I appreciate hearing from you.
"I share your view that the urgent problem of species extinction and
the conservation of biological diversity should be addressed. The
first step in saving any plant or animal from extinction is to become
aware of and respect the fragile ecosystems that make up our environment
... "Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I look forward
to working with you for the future of our planet."
It's strange he should talk about the ecosystem and extinction since
the Texas Eagle is a TRAIN!!
(Sources: reported on Fox News Sunday on December 3, 1996, as well
as quoted in the National Review and reported in the 12/6/96 Washington
Times "Inside the Beltway" by John McCaslin)
Bow and Missouri
"The Japanese
surrendered on the 'bow' (he pronounced it like 'bow ' tie) of the
'aircraft carrier' (instead of the battleship) Missouri."
(Source: from George Putnam on KIEV radio 12:00 to 2:00 P.M. in
Glendale California I am looking for a more specific
source for this, so if anyone had one, or, if this quote is not accurate,
please e-mail me)
Rip-Tootin'
At the opening
of the new Gore 2000 HQ, Gore said something about a "rip-tootin'"
campaign.
Maybe he meant "rip-snortin'" or "rip-roarin'" or "rootin'-tootin'"?
(Source WTVF (TV) News, Nashville, Tenn. 10/6/99)
It was a Buddhist Temple?
Al Gore, when
asked about his illegal fundraising activities that took place in
a Buddhist temple: "I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple."
Yeah...I know a lot of places where bald men run around in orange
robes with incense burning.
(A Senate committee investigating campaign finance voted to issue
43 new subpoenas, including 23 connected to a Democratic fund-raising
event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California that was attended
by Vice President Al Gore. Participants paid $2,500 each to attend,
in apparent violation of the temple's tax-free status as a non-political
religious group (5/23/1997)
Wait though... he may have not realized it was a fundraiser because
he was in the bathroom!
But Mr. Gore said he was sometimes inattentive and missed parts of
fund-raising meetings. He told the F.B.I., according to notes of a
1998 interview, that "he drank a lot of iced tea during meetings,
which could have necessitated a restroom break." New York Times,
3/11/00
"Democracy
confers a stamp of legitimacy that reforms must have in order to be
effective. And so, among nations suffering economic crises, we continue
to hear calls for democracy, calls for reform in many languages - people's
power, doi moi, reformasi. We hear them today, right here, right now,
among the brave people of Malaysia."
This was part of a speech that Al Gore gave during the Apec Business
Summit dinner in Malaysia. After giving this speech which was supporting
the meaningless reformasi movement in Malaysia, Gore walked out of the
hall without even taking his dinner. This is a clear insult to the host
nation, Malaysia and shows how arrogant, rude, and insensitive Al Gore
is, and in the process, angered Malaysians along with its neighbours
who condemned Al Gore for giving the speech at the wrong time and place.
This was submitted to this page by someone who lives in Malaysia
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