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what be actually said in an interview with WOLF BLITZER was " I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
COMPLETE INTERVIEW FOLLOWS
CNN/AllPolitics - Storypage, with TIME and Congressional Quarterly
Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'
March 9, 1999
Web posted at: 5:06 p.m. EST (2206 GMT)
CNN'S WOLF BLITZER: Mr. Vice President, thanks for joining us on Late Edition.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Glad to do it.
BLITZER: You're going to be going to Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming days. Less than a year from now, we probably will know who the Democratic nominee is, who the Republican nominee is for the president. Why do you want to be president?
GORE: Well, Wolf, I haven't formally announced my candidacy yet, but when I do, I will lay out a vision of what I want to see in this country in the 21st century. And the campaign won't be about me, it'll be about the American people, and I hope they'll choose that vision of a nation with strong families and livable communities, in harmony with all of our diversity and fully prepared to lead the world.
BLITZER: You've created an exploratory committee, though. When do you make the formal announcement? It's not going to be...
GORE: Later this year.
BLITZER: It's not going to be a surprise.
GORE: Well, perhaps not. But it won't come until later this year.
BLITZER: When?
GORE: Haven't picked a date.
BLITZER: Are you looking at some precedents, some previous examples? When Vice President Bush, for example, made his announcement?
GORE: No, I won't base it on previous campaigns, I'll just look at see what seems like the right time.
BLITZER: Some people have suggested that you will try to emerge from Bill Clinton's shadow during the course of the coming year. Others say you don't want to emerge from his shadow. The question to you is, do you want to emerge from the president's shadow?
GORE: Well, I don't feel like I'm in his shadow. I think the job of vice president is very different and very distinct from the job of president. And for the last 6 years-plus, I've concentrated on doing the best job I can as vice president to help he be the best president he can be. And I've really enjoyed that. It's been a great privilege and honor, but as a presidential candidate -- when I become one -- I will be in a very different relationship to the American people. And at that time, I'll be speaking about my vision for what I want to see in this country in the 21st century.
And I'm looking forward to that. I'm very excited about the chance.
BLITZER: And the Al GORE vision will not be necessarily completely the same as the Bill Clinton?
GORE: Well, no, because the challenges we face in the future are different from the ones we face in the past. I have been very much involved in shaping our current economic policies, and I feel as if I know a great deal about how to keep our prosperity going.
We have a governing coalition willing to support the ideas that work for the American people. I have also participated in shaping our environmental and education and crime fighting policies and other initiatives, but the challenges are going to be brand new.
You know, the 21st century is not only the beginning of a new millennium, it's the beginning of an entirely new era in human history and we have to take new approaches.
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
COMPLETE INTERVIEW FOLLOWS
CNN/AllPolitics - Storypage, with TIME and Congressional Quarterly
Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'
March 9, 1999
Web posted at: 5:06 p.m. EST (2206 GMT)
CNN'S WOLF BLITZER: Mr. Vice President, thanks for joining us on Late Edition.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Glad to do it.
BLITZER: You're going to be going to Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming days. Less than a year from now, we probably will know who the Democratic nominee is, who the Republican nominee is for the president. Why do you want to be president?
GORE: Well, Wolf, I haven't formally announced my candidacy yet, but when I do, I will lay out a vision of what I want to see in this country in the 21st century. And the campaign won't be about me, it'll be about the American people, and I hope they'll choose that vision of a nation with strong families and livable communities, in harmony with all of our diversity and fully prepared to lead the world.
BLITZER: You've created an exploratory committee, though. When do you make the formal announcement? It's not going to be...
GORE: Later this year.
BLITZER: It's not going to be a surprise.
GORE: Well, perhaps not. But it won't come until later this year.
BLITZER: When?
GORE: Haven't picked a date.
BLITZER: Are you looking at some precedents, some previous examples? When Vice President Bush, for example, made his announcement?
GORE: No, I won't base it on previous campaigns, I'll just look at see what seems like the right time.
BLITZER: Some people have suggested that you will try to emerge from Bill Clinton's shadow during the course of the coming year. Others say you don't want to emerge from his shadow. The question to you is, do you want to emerge from the president's shadow?
GORE: Well, I don't feel like I'm in his shadow. I think the job of vice president is very different and very distinct from the job of president. And for the last 6 years-plus, I've concentrated on doing the best job I can as vice president to help he be the best president he can be. And I've really enjoyed that. It's been a great privilege and honor, but as a presidential candidate -- when I become one -- I will be in a very different relationship to the American people. And at that time, I'll be speaking about my vision for what I want to see in this country in the 21st century.
And I'm looking forward to that. I'm very excited about the chance.
BLITZER: And the Al GORE vision will not be necessarily completely the same as the Bill Clinton?
GORE: Well, no, because the challenges we face in the future are different from the ones we face in the past. I have been very much involved in shaping our current economic policies, and I feel as if I know a great deal about how to keep our prosperity going.
We have a governing coalition willing to support the ideas that work for the American people. I have also participated in shaping our environmental and education and crime fighting policies and other initiatives, but the challenges are going to be brand new.
You know, the 21st century is not only the beginning of a new millennium, it's the beginning of an entirely new era in human history and we have to take new approaches.
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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