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"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough
opponent. He is the incumbent. He
represents the incumbency. And a challenger is
somebody who generally
comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win.
And that's where
I'm coming from."—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000
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| "I mean, there needs to be a
wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."—Second
presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.) |
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"I think we ought to raise
the age at which juveniles can have a gun." |
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"Eight years is too long for anyone to go
without skills or purpose." |
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"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college
students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to
the university."—Today, Feb. 23, 2000 |
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| "I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm
interested to know."-On what happened in negotiations between the Justice Department
and Elián González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April 26, 2000 |
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| "The point is, this is a way to help
inoculate me about what has come and is coming."--on his anti-Gore ad, in an
interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000 |
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| Was it 7 years? 25 years? or When? A Texas friend and Bush supporter was heard shouting,"
Stop trashing Governor Bush! Give the man a break! If you drank
as much booze as him, and snorted as much coke, you wouldn't remember when you stopped
either! Or if you have!" |
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| "It's one thing about insurance, that's a
Washington term." |
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"It's going to require
numerous IRA agents."—On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 |
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| ..."[Rudy Giuliani] has certainly earned a reputation as a
fantastic mayor because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place
for him to be." --The Edge With Paula Zahn |
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"Our priorities is our
faith."—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 |
"I think if you know what you believe, it
makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."—In
response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in
the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.) |
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| "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things.
Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite.
We're a party that welcomes people." —George W. Bush, in July 2000 "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way
America is all about."
"If affirmative action means what I just
described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."—St. Louis, Mo., October 18,
2000 |
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"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty
close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to
California."—In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000 |
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| "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the
incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes
from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from."
—George W. Bush, in Sept. 2000 |
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| "The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not
factual--are going to undermine his campaign." --New York Times
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"It is clear our nation is
reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from
overseas."—Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000 |
"That's Washington. That's
the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first
shot is fired."—Westland, Mich., Sept. 8, 2000 |
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| ...""I think we agree, the past is
over."—-On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News |
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| "The most important job is not to be governor, or first
lady in my case." —George W. Bush, in Jan. 2000 |
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"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell
the nation what I think about him as a human being and a person."—President
George H.W. Bush, on the Today show, Aug. 1, 2000 |
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