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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.
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I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.
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I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.
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I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
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