Transcripts For CSPAN3 Democratic National Convention Day 4

[applause] [chanting] mr. Gore thank you. Thank you very much. You very much. [applause] mr. Gore thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I speak tonight of gratitude, achievement, and high hopes for our country. Tonight, i think first of those who helped me get here, starting with the people of tennessee. Then those who braved the first snows of iowa and new hampshire, and all of you here from all over this country who have come with me to the warm sunlight of this great city. While i cant thank each of you individually in words, i do so in my heart. And i know you wont mind if i single out someone who has just spoken so eloquently, someone ive loved with my whole heart since the night of my High School Senior prom, my wife, tipper. We have been lucky enough to find each other all over again each new stage of our lives, and we just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. [applause] gore i want to acknowledge with great pride our four children, kristin, sarah, and albert. Our oldest daughter karenna and her husband drew. And the youngest member of our family, who a little over a year ago was born on the fourth of july, our grandson wyatt. I am honored tonight by the support of a leader of high ideals and fundamental decency, who will be an important part of our countrys future, senator bill bradley. [applause] mr. Gore thank you, bill. For your, bill campaignfinance reform, civil rights, and it into poverty. There is someone else will shape that future, a leader of character and courage. A defender of the environment and working families. The next Vice President of the United States, Joe Lieberman. [applause] mr. Gore and they are wonderful family. And their food wonderful wonderful family. I picked him for one simple reason he is the best person for the job. For almost eight years now, ive been the partner of a leader who moved us out of the valley of recession and into the longest period of prosperity in American History. I say you i say to you tonight millions of americans , will live better lives for a long time to come because of the job thats been done by president bill clinton. [applause] mr. Gore instead of the biggest deficits in history, we now have the biggest surpluses. The highest Home Ownership ever. The lowest inflation in a generation. Instead of losing jobs, we have 22 million, good, new jobs. Higher income carry above all, our success comes from you, the people who have worked hard for your families. Lets not forget that a few years ago, you were also working hard. But your hard work was undone by a government that didnt work, didnt put people first, and wasnt on your side. Together, we changed things, to help unleash your potential, and unleash innovation, and investment in the private sector the engine that drives our economic growth. And our progress on the economy is a good chapter in our history. [applause] mr. Gore but now we turn the page, and right a new chapter. What i want to speak about tonight. This election is not an award for past performance. Im not asking you to vote for me on the basis of the economy we have. Tonight, i ask for your support on the basis of the better, fairer, more prosperous america we can build together. [applause] mr. Gore together lets make sure that our prosperity enriches not just the few, but all working families. Lets invest in health care, education, a secure retirement, and middle class tax cuts. I am happy that the stock market has boomed and so many businesses and new enterprises have done well. This country is richer and stronger. But my focus is on working families, people trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college, and do right by their kids. [applause] mr. Gore whether you are in a suburb, or an innercity. Whether you raise crops, or drive hogs and cattle on a farm, drive a big rig on the interstate, or drive ecommerce on the internet. Whether youre starting out to raise your own family, or getting ready to retire after a lifetime of hard work. So often, powerful forces and powerful interests stand in your way, and the odds seemed stacked against you, even as you do what is right for you and your family. How and what we do for all of you the people who pay the taxes, bear the burdens, and live the american dream, that is the standard by which we should be judged. And for all of our good times, i am not satisfied. To all the families in america [applause] mr. Gore to all the families in america who have to struggle to afford the right education and the skyrocketing cost of Prescription Drugs, i want you to know this i have taken on the powerful forces. And as president , i will stand up to them, and i will stand up for you. Who aref the families struggling with things that money cannot measure, like trying to find a little more time to spend with your children. For protecting your children from entertainment that you think glorifies violence and in decency. I want you to know, i believe we must challenge a culture with too much meanness, and not enough meaning. And as president , i will stand with you for a goal that we all share to give more power back to the parents, to choose what your own children are exposed to, so you can pass on your familys basic lessons of responsibility and decency. The power should be in your hands. The future should belong to everyone in this land. Everyone. All families. We could squander this moment, but our country would be the poorer for it. Instead, lets lift our eyes, and see how wide the american horizon has become. We are entering a new time. We are electing a new president. And i standard tonight is my own man. And i wanted to know me for who i truly am. [applause] [chanting we want gore] mr. Gore i grew up in a wonderful family. I have a lot to be thankful for. And the greatest gift my parents gave me was love. When i was a child, it never once occurred to me that the Foundation Upon which my security depended would ever shake. And of all the lessons my parents taught me, the most powerful one was unspoken the way they loved one another. My father respected my mother as an equal, if not more. She was his best friend and in , many ways, his conscience. And i learned from them the value of a true, Loving Partnership that lasts for life. They simply could not imagine being without each other. And for 61 years, they were by each others side. My parents taught me that the real values in life arent material, but spiritual. They include faith and family, duty and honor, and trying to make the world a better place. I finished college at a time when all that seemed to be in doubt, and our nations spirit was being depleted. We saw the assassination of our best leaders. Appeals to racial backlash. And the first warning signs of watergate. I remember the conversations i had with tipper back then and , the doubts we had about the vietnam war. But i enlisted in the army because i knew if i didnt go, someone else in the small town of carthage, tennessee would have to go in my place. I was an Army Reporter in vietnam. When i was there, i didnt do the most, or run the gravest danger. But i was proud to wear my countrys uniform. [applause] mr. Gore let me tell you. , running forome office was the very last thing i ever thought i would do. I studied religion at vanderbilt, and worked nights as a Police Reporter evan nashville tennesseean. And i saw more of what could go wrong in america not only on the police beat, but as an Investigative Reporter covering local government. I also saw so much of what could go right citizens lifting up local communities, family by family, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, in churches and charities, on School Boards and city councils. And then, tipper and i started our own family. It and when our first daughter karenna was born, i began to see the future through a fresh set of eyes. I know a lot of you have had that feeling, too. And i decided that i could not turn away from service at home anymore than i could have turned away from service in vietnam. That is why i ran for congress. In my first term, a family in hardeman county, tennessee wrote a letter and told how worried they were about toxic waste that had been dumped near their home. I held some of the first hearings on the issue. And ever since, ive been there in the fight against the big polluters. Our children should not have to draw the breath of life in cities awash in pollution. When [applause] mr. Gore when they come in from playing on a hot summer afternoon, every child in america, anywhere in america, ought to be able to turn on the faucet and get a glass of safe, clean drinking water. [applause] on the issue of the environment, ive never given up, ive never backed down, and i never will. [applause] mr. Gore and i say it again tonight we must reverse the silent, rising tide of global warming. And we can. In the senate and as Vice President , i thought for welfare reform. Over and over again i talked to , folks who told me how they were trapped in the old welfare system. I saw what it did to families. So i fought to end welfare as we then knew it to help those in trouble, but to insist on work and responsibility. Others talked about welfare reform. We actually reformed welfare and set time limits. Instead of handouts, we gave people training to go from welfare to work. And we have cut the welfare rolls in half and moved millions into good jobs. [applause] and it is helped lift them up. For almost 25 years now, ive been fighting for people. And for all that time, i have been listening to people, holding open meetings in the places where they live and work. And do you know what . I have learned a lot. And if i am your president , i am going to keep on having open meetings all over this country. I am going to go out to you as a people, because i want to stay in touch with your hopes, with a quiet, every day heroism of working families. [applause] mr. Gore and because i have learned that the issues before us, the problems in the policies, they all have names. And i dont mean the big fancy names that we put on programs and legislation. Im talking about family names like nystel, johnson, gutierrez, and malone. People and families i have met in the last year, all across this country, and here is what they have told me i met nystel in waterloo, iowa. Because of our welfare reform, shes left welfare and found a good job training electricians and shes become a proud member local 288. Now she dreams of sending her , daughter irene to college. Mildred nystel is here with us tonight, and i will say to her i , will fight for a targeted, affordable tax cut to help working families save and pay for college. [applause] mr. Gore they need help. And people give it to them. It is the key to our future. [applause] i met Jacqueline Johnson in st. Louis, missouri. She worked for 35 years as a medical assistant caring for others. Andshe is 72 years old needs prescription medicine to care for herself. She spends over half of her Social Security check, her only source of income, on her pills. So she either skips meals, or , shops for bargains at a wholesale food store and buys macaroni and cheese dinners in bulk, and then have them at every meal. I invited her here tonight. And and mrs. Johnson, i promise you once again, i will fight for a Prescription Drug benefit for all seniors under medicare. [applause] mr. Gore it is just wrong for seniors to have to choose between food and medicine, while the Big Drug Companies run up record profits. That is wrong [applause] george and met Juanita Gutierrez in san antonio, texas. Their daughter caterina has just started the fourth grade at Davy Crockett elementary school. The School Building is crumbling and overcrowded, with cracked walls and killing plster. Aster. Trailers cover the playground where the kids used to spend recess. The gutierrez family is here tonight. And i will tell them i will , fight to rebuild and modernize our crumbling schools, and reduce class size. We need to put safety, discipline, and character first in every classroom. [applause] mr. Gore you know [chanting] mr. Gore are you with me . [chanting] [applause] mr. Gore you know, education may be a local responsibility. But i believe it also has to be our numberone national priority. We cannot stop until every school in america is a good place to get a good education. [applause] mr. Gore and i will never forget a little boy named ian malone who suffered from a medical mistake during childbirth, and needs fulltime nursing care for several years. I met him and his parents in seattle, near their home in everett, washington. Their hmo had told the malones it would no longer pay for the nurse they needed, and then, actually told them they should considered giving ian up for adoption. That is when his mom and i got really mad. They told their story in public, and the hmo was embarrassed. Because they fought for their baby, today ian has the care he needs to stay alive. But no family in america should have to go on National Television to save their childs [applause] life. [applause] mr. Gore dylan and Christine Malone are here with us tonight. T, too. Ere and i say to them, and to all the families of america, i will fight for a real, enforceable patients bill of rights. [applause] it is just wrong to have life and death medical decisions made by by beancounters at hmos who dont have a license to practice medicine, and dont have a right to play god. It is time to take the medical decisions away from the hmos and Insurance Companies and give , them back to the doctors, the nurses, and the health care professionals. [applause] mr. Gore so, this is not just an election between my opponent and me. It is about our people, our families, and our future, and whether forces standing in your way will keep you from living a better life. To me, this election is about mildred nystel, Jacqueline Johnson, caterina gutierrez, ian malone. It is about millions of we mayns whose names never know, but whose needs and dreams must always be our calling. And so, here tonight, and the name of all the working families who are the strength and soul of america, i accept your nomination for president of United States of america. [applause] i am here to talk seriously about the issues. I believe people deserve to know specifically what a candidate proposes to do. I intend to tell you tonight. You ought to be able to know, and then judge for yourself. If you entrust me with the presidency, i will put our democracy back in your hands, and get all the special interest money, all of it, out of our democracy, by enacting campaign reform. I feel so strongly about this, i promise you that Campaign Finance reform will be the very first bill that Joe Lieberman and i send to congress. The United States congress. It is time. [applause] let others try to restore the old guard. We come to this convention as the change we wish to see in america. And what are those changes . At a time when most americans will live to know even their greatgrandchildren, we will save and strengthen Social Security and medicare. Not only for this generation, but for generations to come. Of our most unimaginable medical breakthroughs, we will fight for Affordable Health care for all so patients and ordinary people , are not left powerless and broke. We will move toward universal health coverage, step by step, starting with all children. Lets get all children covered by 2004. [applause] mr. Gore and, lets move to the day when we at long last, end the stigma of mental illness, entry it like every other illness, everywhere in this nation. Tipper, foryou, leading the way. [applause] within the next few years, scientists will identify the genes that cause every type of cancer. We need a National Commitment equal to the promise of this unequaled moment. So we will double the federal investment in medical research. We will find new medicines and new cures not just for cancer, but for everything from diabetes to hiv aids. [applause] mr. Gore at a time when there is more computer power in a palm pilot than in the spaceship that took Neil Armstrong to the moon, we will offer all our people Lifelong Learning and new skills for the higherpaying jobs of the future. At a time when the amount of Human Knowledge is doubling every five years, and science and technology are advancing so rapidly, we will do bold things to make our schools the best in the world. I will fight for the single greatest commitment to education since the g. I. Bill. [applause] mr. Gore for revolutionary improvements in our schools. For Higher Standards and more accountability. To put a fullyqualified teacher in every classroom. Test all new teachers. And give teachers the training and professional development they deserve. It is time to treat and reward teachers at the professionals they are. [applause] mr. Gore it is not just about more money. It is about Higher Standards, accountability, new ideas. But we cannot do it without new resources. And that is why i will invest far more in our schools. In the long run, a secondclass education always costs more than a firstclass education. [applause] mr. Gore and i will not go along with any plan that would drain taxpayer money away from our schools and give it to private schools in the form of vouchers. [applause] mr. Gore this nation was a pioneer of universal public education. Letss set a new set a specific, new gold for the goal for the first decadetur of the 21st century highquality universal preschool, available to every child in every family, all , across this country. [laughter] [applause] mr. Gore we also have to give middleclass families help in paying for college with taxfree college savings, and by making most High School Senior<\/a> prom, my wife, tipper. We have been lucky enough to find each other all over again each new stage of our lives, and we just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. [applause] gore i want to acknowledge with great pride our four children, kristin, sarah, and albert. Our oldest daughter karenna and her husband drew. And the youngest member of our family, who a little over a year ago was born on the fourth of july, our grandson wyatt. I am honored tonight by the support of a leader of high ideals and fundamental decency, who will be an important part of our countrys future, senator bill bradley. [applause] mr. Gore thank you, bill. For your, bill campaignfinance reform, civil rights, and it into poverty. There is someone else will shape that future, a leader of character and courage. A defender of the environment and working families. The next Vice President<\/a> of the United States<\/a>, Joe Lieberman<\/a>. [applause] mr. Gore and they are wonderful family. And their food wonderful wonderful family. I picked him for one simple reason he is the best person for the job. For almost eight years now, ive been the partner of a leader who moved us out of the valley of recession and into the longest period of prosperity in American History<\/a>. I say you i say to you tonight millions of americans , will live better lives for a long time to come because of the job thats been done by president bill clinton. [applause] mr. Gore instead of the biggest deficits in history, we now have the biggest surpluses. The highest Home Ownership<\/a> ever. The lowest inflation in a generation. Instead of losing jobs, we have 22 million, good, new jobs. Higher income carry above all, our success comes from you, the people who have worked hard for your families. Lets not forget that a few years ago, you were also working hard. But your hard work was undone by a government that didnt work, didnt put people first, and wasnt on your side. Together, we changed things, to help unleash your potential, and unleash innovation, and investment in the private sector the engine that drives our economic growth. And our progress on the economy is a good chapter in our history. [applause] mr. Gore but now we turn the page, and right a new chapter. What i want to speak about tonight. This election is not an award for past performance. Im not asking you to vote for me on the basis of the economy we have. Tonight, i ask for your support on the basis of the better, fairer, more prosperous america we can build together. [applause] mr. Gore together lets make sure that our prosperity enriches not just the few, but all working families. Lets invest in health care, education, a secure retirement, and middle class tax cuts. I am happy that the stock market has boomed and so many businesses and new enterprises have done well. This country is richer and stronger. But my focus is on working families, people trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college, and do right by their kids. [applause] mr. Gore whether you are in a suburb, or an innercity. Whether you raise crops, or drive hogs and cattle on a farm, drive a big rig on the interstate, or drive ecommerce on the internet. Whether youre starting out to raise your own family, or getting ready to retire after a lifetime of hard work. So often, powerful forces and powerful interests stand in your way, and the odds seemed stacked against you, even as you do what is right for you and your family. How and what we do for all of you the people who pay the taxes, bear the burdens, and live the american dream, that is the standard by which we should be judged. And for all of our good times, i am not satisfied. To all the families in america [applause] mr. Gore to all the families in america who have to struggle to afford the right education and the skyrocketing cost of Prescription Drug<\/a>s, i want you to know this i have taken on the powerful forces. And as president , i will stand up to them, and i will stand up for you. Who aref the families struggling with things that money cannot measure, like trying to find a little more time to spend with your children. For protecting your children from entertainment that you think glorifies violence and in decency. I want you to know, i believe we must challenge a culture with too much meanness, and not enough meaning. And as president , i will stand with you for a goal that we all share to give more power back to the parents, to choose what your own children are exposed to, so you can pass on your familys basic lessons of responsibility and decency. The power should be in your hands. The future should belong to everyone in this land. Everyone. All families. We could squander this moment, but our country would be the poorer for it. Instead, lets lift our eyes, and see how wide the american horizon has become. We are entering a new time. We are electing a new president. And i standard tonight is my own man. And i wanted to know me for who i truly am. [applause] [chanting we want gore] mr. Gore i grew up in a wonderful family. I have a lot to be thankful for. And the greatest gift my parents gave me was love. When i was a child, it never once occurred to me that the Foundation Upon<\/a> which my security depended would ever shake. And of all the lessons my parents taught me, the most powerful one was unspoken the way they loved one another. My father respected my mother as an equal, if not more. She was his best friend and in , many ways, his conscience. And i learned from them the value of a true, Loving Partnership<\/a> that lasts for life. They simply could not imagine being without each other. And for 61 years, they were by each others side. My parents taught me that the real values in life arent material, but spiritual. They include faith and family, duty and honor, and trying to make the world a better place. I finished college at a time when all that seemed to be in doubt, and our nations spirit was being depleted. We saw the assassination of our best leaders. Appeals to racial backlash. And the first warning signs of watergate. I remember the conversations i had with tipper back then and , the doubts we had about the vietnam war. But i enlisted in the army because i knew if i didnt go, someone else in the small town of carthage, tennessee would have to go in my place. I was an Army Reporter<\/a> in vietnam. When i was there, i didnt do the most, or run the gravest danger. But i was proud to wear my countrys uniform. [applause] mr. Gore let me tell you. , running forome office was the very last thing i ever thought i would do. I studied religion at vanderbilt, and worked nights as a Police Reporter<\/a> evan nashville tennesseean. And i saw more of what could go wrong in america not only on the police beat, but as an Investigative Reporter<\/a> covering local government. I also saw so much of what could go right citizens lifting up local communities, family by family, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, in churches and charities, on School Boards<\/a> and city councils. And then, tipper and i started our own family. It and when our first daughter karenna was born, i began to see the future through a fresh set of eyes. I know a lot of you have had that feeling, too. And i decided that i could not turn away from service at home anymore than i could have turned away from service in vietnam. That is why i ran for congress. In my first term, a family in hardeman county, tennessee wrote a letter and told how worried they were about toxic waste that had been dumped near their home. I held some of the first hearings on the issue. And ever since, ive been there in the fight against the big polluters. Our children should not have to draw the breath of life in cities awash in pollution. When [applause] mr. Gore when they come in from playing on a hot summer afternoon, every child in america, anywhere in america, ought to be able to turn on the faucet and get a glass of safe, clean drinking water. [applause] on the issue of the environment, ive never given up, ive never backed down, and i never will. [applause] mr. Gore and i say it again tonight we must reverse the silent, rising tide of global warming. And we can. In the senate and as Vice President<\/a> , i thought for welfare reform. Over and over again i talked to , folks who told me how they were trapped in the old welfare system. I saw what it did to families. So i fought to end welfare as we then knew it to help those in trouble, but to insist on work and responsibility. Others talked about welfare reform. We actually reformed welfare and set time limits. Instead of handouts, we gave people training to go from welfare to work. And we have cut the welfare rolls in half and moved millions into good jobs. [applause] and it is helped lift them up. For almost 25 years now, ive been fighting for people. And for all that time, i have been listening to people, holding open meetings in the places where they live and work. And do you know what . I have learned a lot. And if i am your president , i am going to keep on having open meetings all over this country. I am going to go out to you as a people, because i want to stay in touch with your hopes, with a quiet, every day heroism of working families. [applause] mr. Gore and because i have learned that the issues before us, the problems in the policies, they all have names. And i dont mean the big fancy names that we put on programs and legislation. Im talking about family names like nystel, johnson, gutierrez, and malone. People and families i have met in the last year, all across this country, and here is what they have told me i met nystel in waterloo, iowa. Because of our welfare reform, shes left welfare and found a good job training electricians and shes become a proud member local 288. Now she dreams of sending her , daughter irene to college. Mildred nystel is here with us tonight, and i will say to her i , will fight for a targeted, affordable tax cut to help working families save and pay for college. [applause] mr. Gore they need help. And people give it to them. It is the key to our future. [applause] i met Jacqueline Johnson<\/a> in st. Louis, missouri. She worked for 35 years as a medical assistant caring for others. Andshe is 72 years old needs prescription medicine to care for herself. She spends over half of her Social Security<\/a> check, her only source of income, on her pills. So she either skips meals, or , shops for bargains at a wholesale food store and buys macaroni and cheese dinners in bulk, and then have them at every meal. I invited her here tonight. And and mrs. Johnson, i promise you once again, i will fight for a Prescription Drug<\/a> benefit for all seniors under medicare. [applause] mr. Gore it is just wrong for seniors to have to choose between food and medicine, while the Big Drug Companies<\/a> run up record profits. That is wrong [applause] george and met Juanita Gutierrez<\/a> in san antonio, texas. Their daughter caterina has just started the fourth grade at Davy Crockett<\/a> elementary school. The School Building<\/a> is crumbling and overcrowded, with cracked walls and killing plster. Aster. Trailers cover the playground where the kids used to spend recess. The gutierrez family is here tonight. And i will tell them i will , fight to rebuild and modernize our crumbling schools, and reduce class size. We need to put safety, discipline, and character first in every classroom. [applause] mr. Gore you know [chanting] mr. Gore are you with me . [chanting] [applause] mr. Gore you know, education may be a local responsibility. But i believe it also has to be our numberone national priority. We cannot stop until every school in america is a good place to get a good education. [applause] mr. Gore and i will never forget a little boy named ian malone who suffered from a medical mistake during childbirth, and needs fulltime nursing care for several years. I met him and his parents in seattle, near their home in everett, washington. Their hmo had told the malones it would no longer pay for the nurse they needed, and then, actually told them they should considered giving ian up for adoption. That is when his mom and i got really mad. They told their story in public, and the hmo was embarrassed. Because they fought for their baby, today ian has the care he needs to stay alive. But no family in america should have to go on National Television<\/a> to save their childs [applause] life. [applause] mr. Gore dylan and Christine Malone<\/a> are here with us tonight. T, too. Ere and i say to them, and to all the families of america, i will fight for a real, enforceable patients bill of rights. [applause] it is just wrong to have life and death medical decisions made by by beancounters at hmos who dont have a license to practice medicine, and dont have a right to play god. It is time to take the medical decisions away from the hmos and Insurance Companies<\/a> and give , them back to the doctors, the nurses, and the health care professionals. [applause] mr. Gore so, this is not just an election between my opponent and me. It is about our people, our families, and our future, and whether forces standing in your way will keep you from living a better life. To me, this election is about mildred nystel, Jacqueline Johnson<\/a>, caterina gutierrez, ian malone. It is about millions of we mayns whose names never know, but whose needs and dreams must always be our calling. And so, here tonight, and the name of all the working families who are the strength and soul of america, i accept your nomination for president of United States<\/a> of america. [applause] i am here to talk seriously about the issues. I believe people deserve to know specifically what a candidate proposes to do. I intend to tell you tonight. You ought to be able to know, and then judge for yourself. If you entrust me with the presidency, i will put our democracy back in your hands, and get all the special interest money, all of it, out of our democracy, by enacting campaign reform. I feel so strongly about this, i promise you that Campaign Finance<\/a> reform will be the very first bill that Joe Lieberman<\/a> and i send to congress. The United States<\/a> congress. It is time. [applause] let others try to restore the old guard. We come to this convention as the change we wish to see in america. And what are those changes . At a time when most americans will live to know even their greatgrandchildren, we will save and strengthen Social Security<\/a> and medicare. Not only for this generation, but for generations to come. Of our most unimaginable medical breakthroughs, we will fight for Affordable Health<\/a> care for all so patients and ordinary people , are not left powerless and broke. We will move toward universal health coverage, step by step, starting with all children. Lets get all children covered by 2004. [applause] mr. Gore and, lets move to the day when we at long last, end the stigma of mental illness, entry it like every other illness, everywhere in this nation. Tipper, foryou, leading the way. [applause] within the next few years, scientists will identify the genes that cause every type of cancer. We need a National Commitment<\/a> equal to the promise of this unequaled moment. So we will double the federal investment in medical research. We will find new medicines and new cures not just for cancer, but for everything from diabetes to hiv aids. [applause] mr. Gore at a time when there is more computer power in a palm pilot than in the spaceship that took Neil Armstrong<\/a> to the moon, we will offer all our people Lifelong Learning<\/a> and new skills for the higherpaying jobs of the future. At a time when the amount of Human Knowledge<\/a> is doubling every five years, and science and technology are advancing so rapidly, we will do bold things to make our schools the best in the world. I will fight for the single greatest commitment to education since the g. I. Bill. [applause] mr. Gore for revolutionary improvements in our schools. For Higher Standards<\/a> and more accountability. To put a fullyqualified teacher in every classroom. Test all new teachers. And give teachers the training and professional development they deserve. It is time to treat and reward teachers at the professionals they are. [applause] mr. Gore it is not just about more money. It is about Higher Standards<\/a>, accountability, new ideas. But we cannot do it without new resources. And that is why i will invest far more in our schools. In the long run, a secondclass education always costs more than a firstclass education. [applause] mr. Gore and i will not go along with any plan that would drain taxpayer money away from our schools and give it to private schools in the form of vouchers. [applause] mr. Gore this nation was a pioneer of universal public education. Letss set a new set a specific, new gold for the goal for the first decadetur of the 21st century highquality universal preschool, available to every child in every family, all , across this country. [laughter] [applause] mr. Gore we also have to give middleclass families help in paying for college with taxfree college savings, and by making most College Tuition<\/a> taxdeductible. Open the doors of learning to all. [laughter] [applause] mr. Gore and all of this. [laughter] [applause] [chanting] this. Re and all of [chanting] mr. Gore all of this, all of this is the change we wish to see in america. Not so long ago, a balanced budget seemed impossible. Now our Budget Surplus<\/a>es make it , possible to give a full range of targeted tax cuts to working families. Not just to help you save for college, but to pay for Health Insurance<\/a> and childcare. To reform the estate tax, so people can pass on a Small Business<\/a> or a family farm. And or a family farm. And to end the marriage penalty the right way, the fair way because we shouldnt force couples to pay more in income taxes just because theyre married. But let me say it i plainly 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. [applause] let me tell youre something. Under the tax plan the other side has proposed, for every ten dollars that goes to the wealthiest 1 . Middle class families would get , one dime. And lowerincome families would get one penny. In fact, if you add it up, the average family would get about enough money to buy one extra diet coke a week. That is not nothing. About . 62 in change, but let me tell you, that is not the kind of change i am working for. [applause] mr. Gore i will fight for tax cuts to go to the right people to the working families who have , the toughest time paying taxes and saving for the future. I will fight for a new taxfree way to help you save and build a bigger nest egg for your retirement. I am talking about something action show that you can save and invest for yourself. Something that will supplement Social Security<\/a>, not be subtracted from it. But i will not go along with any proposal to strip one out of every six dollars from the Social Security<\/a> trust fund and privatize the Social Security<\/a> that you are counting on. That is Social Security<\/a> minus. Our plan is Social Security<\/a> plus. [applause] we will balance the budget every year, and dedicate the Budget Surplus<\/a> first to saving Social Security<\/a>. In the next four years, we will pay off all the National Debt<\/a> 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. [applause] is something there else at stake in the selection thanis even more important economic progress. Simply put, it is our values. It is our responsibility to our loved ones, to our families. And to me, family values means honoring our fathers and mothers , teaching our children well, sick,ring for the respecting one another, giving people the power to achieve what they want for their families. Putting those Social Security<\/a> and medicare in an ironclad lock box where the politicians cant touch them. To me that kind of common sense , is a family value. Handsoff, medicare and Social Security<\/a>, trust fund money. I will veto anything that spends it for anything other than Social Security<\/a> and medicare. Getting cigarettes out of the hands of kids before they get hold is a family value of kids before they get hooked as a family value. [laughter] down on i will crack the marketing of tobacco to our children, no matter how hard the Tobacco Companies<\/a> lobby, no matter how much they spend. A new Prescription Drug<\/a> benefit under medicare for all our seniors, that is a family value. And let me tell you, i will fight for it, and the other side will not. They get into the Big Drug Companies<\/a>. Their plan tell seniors to beg the hmos and Insurance Companies<\/a> for Prescription Drug<\/a> coverage. And that is the difference in this election. They are for the powerful, and we are for the people. [laughter] [applause] mr. Gore judge for yourself. Look at the agendas. Look at the facts. Oil, bigcco, big polluters, the pharmaceutical companies, the hmos, sometimes you have to be willing to stand up and say no, so families can have a better life. I know one thing about the job of the president. It is the only job in the constitution that is charged with the responsibility of fighting for all of the people. Not just the people of one state, or one district, not just the wealthy, or the powerful, but all of the people. Especially those who need a who need ae who champion those who need to be , lifted up, so they are never left behind. Tonight, if you entrusting with the presidency, i will fight for you [applause] mr. Gore i mean that with all of my heart. [chanting] mr. Gore there is one other word that we have heard a lot of in this campaign, and that word is honor. To me, honor is not just a word, but an application. And you have my word that we will honor hard work by raising the minimum wage so that work always pays more than welfare. [applause] families we will honor by expanding to have care, and afterschool, and family and medical leave, so working families have the help they need to care for their children. Because one of the most important jobs of all is raising our children. And we will support the right of parents to decide that one of them will stay home longer with their babies if that is what they believe is best for their families. Ideal ofonor the equality by standing up for civil rights and defending affirmative action. [applause] mr. Gore we will honor equal rights and fight for an equal , days pay for an equal days work. [applause] mr. Gore and let there be no doubt, i and let there be no doubt, i will protect and defend a womans right to choose. The last thing this country needs is a Supreme Court<\/a> that overturns roe v. Wade. [applause] [chanting] all the we will remove old areas, so that those who are called disabled can develop all their abilities. And we will also widen the circle of opportunity for all americans, and enforce all our civil rights laws. We will pass the employment nondiscrimination act. [applause] , we will honor the memory of matthew shepard, joseph ileto, and james byrd, whose families all joined us this week by passing a law against hate crimes. [applause] mr. Gore we need to embody our values and that new law. It is time. In that. It is time. In that new law. It is time. We will honor the hard work of raising a family by doing all we can to help parents protect children. Parents deserve the simple security of knowing that their children are safe whether theyre walking down the street, surfing the world wide web, or sitting behind a desk in school. To make families safer, we passed the toughest crime bill in history, and were putting 100,000 new Community Police<\/a> on our streets. Crime has fallen in every major category for seven years in a row. But there is still too much danger, and there is still too much fear. So, tonight i want to set another new, specific goal to to cut the crime rate year cut the crime radio after year, every single year throughout this decade. That is why i will fight to add 50,000 new Police Community<\/a> , police who help prevent crime by establishing Real Relationships<\/a> between Law Enforcement<\/a> and neighborhood residents, which incidentally is , the opposite of racial profiling, which must be brought to an end. I will fight for a crime victims bill of rights, including a constitutional amendment to make sure that victims, and not just criminals, are guaranteed rights in our justice system. Ill fight to toughen penalties on those who misuse the internet to prey on our children and violate our privacy. And ill fight to make every school in this nation drugfree and gunfree. [applause] mr. Gore i believe in the right of sportsmen and hunters and lawabiding citizens to own firearms. But i want mandatory background checks to keep guns away from criminals, and mandatory Child Safety Locks<\/a> to protect our children. [applause] tipper and i went out to Columbine High School<\/a> after the tragedy there, and we embraced the families of the children who were lost. And i will never forget the words of the father who whispered into my ear, promise me that these children will not have died in vain. All of us must join together to make that promise come true. Laws and programs by themselves will never be enough. All of us, and especially all parents need to take more responsibility. We need to change our hearts and make a , commitment to our children and to one another. You know, i am excited about americas prospects, and full of hope for americas future. Ouour country has come a long way, and i have come a long way since that longago time when i went to vietnam. I have never forgotten what i saw there and the bravery of so , many young americans. The price of freedom is sometimes high, but i never believed that america should turn inward. As a senator, i broke with many in our party and voted to support the gulf war when Saddam Hussein<\/a> invaded kuwait because i believed americas vital interests were at stake. Early in my Public Service<\/a>, i took up the issue of Nuclear Arms Control<\/a> and Nuclear Weapons<\/a> because nothing can more fundamental than protecting our national six ready. Now, i want to lead america because i love america. I will keep americas defenses strong. I will make sure our armed forces continue to be the best equipped, best trained, and best led in the entire world. They are now, and they will be. [applause] the last entry, this nation, more than any other, freed the world from fascism and communism. But a newly free world still has dangers and challenges, both old and new. We must always have the will to defend our enduring interests from europe, to the middle east, to japan and korea. We must strengthen our partnerships with africa, latin america, and the rest of the developing world. [applause] mr. Gore we must confront the new challenges of terrorism, new kinds of weapons of mass destruction, global and environmental problems and new know no national boundary. We must welcome and promote truly free trade. But i say to you, it must be fair trade. We must set standards to end child labor, to prevent the exploitation of workers and the poisoning of the environment. Be, andde can and must if i am president , will be a way , to lift everyone up, not bring anyone down to the lowest common denominator. [applause] mr. Gore so those are the issues, and that is where i stand. [applause] but i also want to tell you just a little more about two of my greatest heroes, my father and my mother. They did give me a good life. But like so many in america, they started out with almost nothing. My father grew up in a Small Community<\/a> named Possum Hollow<\/a> in middle tennessee. When he was just 18 years old he , went to work as a teacher in a oneroom school. Then the Great Depression<\/a> came along and taught him a lesson that couldnt be found in any classroom. He told me and my sister often how he watched grown men, with wives and children they could neither feed nor clothe, on farms they could no longer pay for. My father didnt know whether he could help those families, but he believed he had to try. And never in the years to come, in congress, and in the United States<\/a> senate did he lose sight , of the reason he entered Public Service<\/a> to fight for the people, not the powerful. [applause] mr. Gore my mother grew up in a poor Farming Community<\/a> in northwest tennessee. Her family ran a small Country Store<\/a> in cold corner. A store in cold corner. A store that went bust during the Great Depression<\/a>. She worked her way through college, then got a room in nashville at the ywca and waited tables at an allnight coffee shop for . 25 tips. She then went on to become one of the first women in history to graduate from vanderbilt law school. [laughter] you,ore esther for told we lost my dad a year and a half ago. But we are so lucky that my mother, pauline continues to be , part of our lives, every single day. She is here tonight. [applause] mr. Gore sometimes in this campaign, when i visit a school and see a hardworking teacher trying to change the world one child at a time, i see the face of my father. And i know that teaching our children well is not just the teachers job, it is everyones job, and it has to be our national mission. I have shaken hands in diners and coffee shops all across this country, and sometimes, when i see a waitress working hard and thanking someone for tip, i see the face of my mother. And i know, for that waitress carrying trays, or a construction in the winter cold, i will never agree to raise the retirement age to coos 70, or threaten raising retirement age to 70 or threaten the , promise of Social Security<\/a>. I will do it. [applause] say to you tonight, we have that to win the this election,n because every hardworking American Family<\/a> deserves to open the door to their dream. [applause] mr. Gore and our democracy the , future is not something that just happens to us; it is something we make for ourselves together. So to the young people watching tonight, i say this is your time to make new the life of our our world. Our world. We need your help to rekindle the spirit of america. Fellow citizens from this city and i ask all of you, my fellow citizens from this city that marked both the end of americas journey westward and the beginning of the new frontier, let us set out on a new journey to the best america. A new journey on which we advance not by the turning of wheels, but by the turning of our minds, the reach of our vision, the during grace of the human spirit. Yes, we had our problems. But the United States<\/a> of america is the best country ever created , and still as ever, the hope of , humankind. Yes, were all imperfect. But as americans we all share in the privilege and challenge of building a more perfect union. I know my own imperfections. For example, i know sometimes people say i am too serious, and i talk too much substance and policy. Maybe i have done that tonight. More thanesidency is a popularity contest. It is a day by day fight for people. Sometimes you have to choose what is difficult, or unpopular. Sometimes, you have to be willing to spend your popularity in order to pick the hard right over the easy wrong. [applause] [chanting] mr. Gore there are big choices ahead, and our whole future is at stake. And i do have strong beliefs about it. If you entrust me with the presidency, i know i wont always be the most exciting politician. But i pledge to you tonight, i will work for you every day, and i will never let you down. [applause] mr. Gore if we allow ourselves to believe, without reservation, that we can do whats right and be the better for it then the , best america will become our america. In this city of angels, we can summon the better angels of our nature. Do not rest where we are, or retreat. Do all we can to make america all it can become. Thank you. God bless you. God bless america [applause] [captions Copyright National<\/a> cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [inaudible] [applause] road to the white house will feature highlights from the democratic and Republican Convention<\/a> back to the 19 43rd this is American History<\/a> tv only on cspan3. With the political primary cspanover, sees dan road to the white house takes you to the Democratic Convention<\/a> with live coverage from cleveland. We will be going into the convention and we will go in so strong. Washington Democratic National<\/a> Convention Starting<\/a> july 25 with live coverage from philadelphia. Ms. Clinton lets go forward and win the nomination and in july, lets return. Bernie sanders and we take our fight for social, economic, racial, and Environmental Justice<\/a> to philadelphia, pennsylvania. Every minute of the republican and democratic parties National Conventions<\/a> on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Anna thisand weekend on american artifacts, the visit the smithsonian is he him to see oneofakind artifacts that tell the story of the quest to go higher, faster, and farther in the first halfcentury of aviation. Here is a preview. One of the major Technological Innovations<\/a> for Fighter Aircraft<\/a> in world war i was a gun synchronizer system. That means you can mount a and as you point the airplane, you can point the machine gun and hit your target. The problem is that you have a spending propeller in the way, so the creation of a mechanical shaft, ast up on the the propeller crosses in front of the machine guns, it turns off a machine gun. As the blade passes, the machine guns are turned back on. 1918, and into the war, you have American Air Service<\/a> pilots coming into the western front and being equipped with french aircraft. There is not a frontlineready american air fighter for the conflict. This image you see here, it is an American Air Service<\/a> markings and built by one of the manufacturers contracted to make these. Wasthe 22nd aerial squadron assigned as airplane. A young pilot named ray brooks painted the name of his fiancees college on there, smith college, and he had three previous airplanes. He goes into combat with this airplane and scores one aerial kill. Some other pilots of the same squadron to down at least five more. This 513 blue with the firstgeneration of american combat pilots. Ray brooks names this airplane after his fiancees school. Thing thee would airplane after their girlfriends. But he did not want to have this airplane damaged and have the mechanic saying ruthie is damaged and we have to fix her. He wanted to keep her out of the situation and named it after a college. Missile force is in its camouflage. You see along the fuselage the small black squares with german crosses. Those represent bullet holes shopper the fabric from combat. Small indication of this being a combat airplane and surviving. The squares with have been applied by ground mechanics in the field because there is no need to recover the airplane. One of the advantages of a fabriccovered airplane, the bullet just passes through the other side. All it has to do is patched. Just to restore the integrity, and they can keep fighting. Watch more of our tour of the National Aerospace<\/a> museum on american artifacts sunday at 6 00 p. M. And 10 p. M. Eastern time. This is American History<\/a> tv, only on cspan3. On tuesday, the federal court of appeals for the District Of Columbia<\/a> upheld the fcc rules or treating the internet like a utility, requiring internet providers to treat all internet traffic equally. On the communicators, fred campbell, Technology Director<\/a> chiefrmer fcc wireless and that would are on either side of the decision and talk about their views and to invite reporter brian fung. Now that the sec has gone further and said this scheme that once covered the monopoly applies to it opens up the doors for additional regulation that was never a part of the Net Neutrality<\/a> debate. Treating it like a Communication Service<\/a> and an infrastructure and making a distinction between the content. Watch the communicators on cspan2. On lectures and history, Georgetown University<\/a> professor Maurice Jackson<\/a> teaches a class on the philosophy of w. E. B. Dubois. A civil rights activist in he described his early life, role as an educator, and relationship with other activists at the time. The class is about an hour. Maurice jackson today we discussed the works of web dubois. We just entered africanAmerican History<\/a> month, and carter woods said we established this for three reasons. One was because of Frederick Douglass<\/a> birthday, the birthday of abraham lincoln, established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of web dubois, april 23 february 23 in massachusetts. 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