"I will not go along with a huge tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of everyone else and wreck our good economy in the process."
"At a time of almost unimaginable medical breakthroughs, we will fight for affordable health care for all, so patients end ordinary people are not left powerless and broke. We will move toward universal health coverage, step by step, starting with all children."
"We will balance the budget every year and dedicate the budget surplus first to saving Social Security. In the next four years, we will pay off all the national debt this nation accumulated in our first 200 years. This will put us on the path to completely eliminating the debt by 2012, keeping America prosperous far into the future."
Al Gore, August17, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/democratic...