Friday, August 08, 2003

__Gore Blasts Republicans on 'Honor and Integrity'

"As for honor and integrity, let me say this: we know what that was all about, but hear me well,
not as a candidate for any office, but as an American citizen who loves my country: For eight
years, the Clinton-Gore Administration gave this nation honest budget numbers; an economic
plan with integrity that rescued the nation from debt and stagnation; honest advocacy for the
environment; real compassion for the poor; a strengthening of our military - as recently
proven - and a foreign policy whose purposes were elevated, candidly presented and
courageously pursued, in the face of scorched-earth tactics by the opposition. That is also a
form of honor and integrity, and not every administration in recent memory has displayed it.
So I would say to those who have found the issue of honor and integrity so useful as a political
tool, that the people are also looking for these virtues in the execution of public policy on their
behalf, and will judge whether they are present or absent."
http://www.moveon.org/gore-speech.html

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