GORE: No, I don’t. I do not pay too much attention to the political analyses in the press on who’s up and who’s down.
Correct. The campaign really hasn’t started yet.
For seven years now I have always avoided commenting on any advice that I have given him, and I’m certainly not going to comment on advice that he has given me.
If he did not advise me to loosen up, he would be the only person in the United States of America who didn’t.
He’s got a full-time job being president and he’s doing it extremely well.
I don’t think that the American people really know the candidates.
Not really. They know me as vice president; they don’t know me as a candidate for president in my own right.
I’ll let you analyze that. I think that polls are meaningless at this stage.
Probably the importance I place on humor. It helps almost everything in life to be able to laugh at the absurd parts of it or the ironic parts of it, and I do that a lot. That doesn’t come through as much in public as it does in private.
Maybe because a lot of the humor is edgy and more easily enjoyed in private when people are not dissecting every potential political meaning.
She’s my closest adviser, she’s my best friend, she is the person whose judgment and courage and character I most admire and look up to. We enjoy life together immensely, and I’m a better person when I’m with her, and if the American people choose me to be president, I’ll be a better president with her… One of the secrets of being close is to share the same values, aim at the same goals.
Family, faith, being good parents, being good to one another.
And faithful to one another and sharing life experiences.
To keep our prosperity moving and use it to make certain that we bring about revolutionary changes in public education, to reconnect the American spirit to the body politic, to bring about stronger families and more livable communities and make certain that America leads the world.
Slow, incremental change is entirely inadequate. We’re now in an information age where learning is the most important skill we can give our children.
