Gore quotes
(No user rating) (from Various - 13 November 2000)Democratic waffle at it's best.
"When my sister and I were growing up," Mr. Gore told a small audience made up mostly of women, "there was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so." 8/12/00 At an event in Las Vegas, Gore declared potential breast cancer victims faced "a long waiting line before they could get a biopsy or, uh, or a uh, another kind of, what am I looking for, a sonogram or...." People in the crowd shouted "mammogram." 18/9/00 "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! 17/5/00 "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." "Finding himself talking to the controversial rock star Courtney Love, widow of Kurt Cobain, at a Hollywood party, Mr. Gore attempted to charm her by telling her he was a fan. Rather than just accepting the easy compliment, she 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 US campaign to make record companies put stickers on records that contained lyrics with sexually explicit content. Love's band, Hole, specializes in drug-addled musings on promiscuity and despair." In September 1998, Gore hiked reporters up to a glacier in Montana to point out that it was melting. Imagine: ice melting in the summertime. Although this photo op was supposed to demonstrate 'global warming,' summer daytime temperatures in western Montana haven't risen in 100 years On Clinton? "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."