''Why should we believe that you will tell the truth as president if you don't tell the truth as a candidate?'' 
Former Senator Bill Bradley asked of Gore at a debate in New Hampshire.

• January 17, 1993: In a tour of Monticello, Gore asks about a row of busts, "Who are these people?" According to The New York Times, the curator "helpfully identified the unfamiliar faces.  "This is George Washington on the extreme right... with Benjamin Franklin close behind." 
• January 6, 1994: In a speech in Milwaukee praising the city's ethnic diversity, Gore says America "can be e pluribus unum. Out of one, many."  The correct translation is, of course, "Out of many, one."
• October 28, 1994: In Virginia, Gore attacks Oliver North's Senate bid supporters as "the extreme right wing, the extra chromosome right wing." Advocates for those with Down's Syndrome, caused by an extra chromosome, were outraged. 
• November 28, 1994: The New Yorker quotes from letters Gore sent his father in the '60s saying anti-communism was a "form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness," leading the U.S. into "supporting fascist totalitarian regimes in the name of fighting totalitarianism...For me the best example of all is the U.S. Army." 
• August 28, 1996: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago.  Gore makes a moving speech about his sister's death in 1984 from cancer which, he claims, spurred him to wage war on the tobacco industry.  However, while running for president in 1988, Gore told an audience of tobacco farmers, "I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it."  He also received thousands of dollars in PAC money from tobacco companies after the death of his sister in 1984 and accepted federal subsidies for the tobacco grown on his farm.
• January 24, 1997:  On NBC's Today Show Gore said, "I did not know that it was a fundraiser." When referring to the Buddhist Temple fundraiser in California.  In fact, a DNC memo prepared for Gore made plain that the event at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif., was a fundraiser. A Secret Service document called it a fundraiser, Gore¹s staff described the event as a fundraiser to reporters, and DNC chairman Don Fowler testified to the Senate that he knew "there was a fundraising aspect to this event."  Six weeks before attending the event, Gore met with temple master Hsing Yun at the White House with fundraisers Maria Hsia and John Huang. Later that day, Gore sent an e-mail saying that he couldn't be in New York on April 28, 1996: "If we have already booked the fundraisers [in California], then we have to decline." 
• December 1997: Gore tells Time's Karen Tumulty that he and Tipper were the inspiration for Erich Segal's novel 'Love Story.'  Erich Segal has disputed that claim.
• December 22, 1997: The Washington Times notes Gore claimed "2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger." He was referring to Joseph and Mary who were traveling, not homeless. 
• June 15, 1998: Gore tells Chicago Bull fans: "That Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he?" (That's Michael Jordan.) 
• October 1, 1998: The Times of London reports that Gore told rock star Courtney Love at a Hollywood party "I'm a really big fan," but when she snapped "Yeah right, name a song, Al," he said, "I can't name a song." Courtney told the story to David Letterman.  (view video clip)
• October 12, 1998: Gore stumps for Democrats in Minnesota, saying, "They will be the education team that Missouri needs."  (Uh, Spotted, that's Minnesota.)
• December 19, 1998:  After the House impeached Clinton, Spotted Al lead a rally on the White House lawn where he told the audience that Clinton was "a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents."  (view video clip)
• March 9, 1999: On CNN's Late Edition, Gore claims: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."  President Clinton, trying to cover for Spotted Al, said that he had done so much for the internet that he deserved to take credit for inventing it!  (view video clip)
• April 6, 1999: You would think the 'Father of the Internet' would be up on the federal laws that govern it.  Vice President Al Gore tries to launch a campaign web site with a page asking children for their names, e-mail addresses and zip codes -- a direct violation of a new federal law passed by Congress last year and signed by his buddy, President Bill Clinton. 
• May 6, 1999: Al Gore claims during an Internet security photo-op that tools developed to help parents protect children from obscene web sites first originated with him in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. But some involved with the development of such computer programs as "one click" say the credit goes to the industry and congressional leaders, not Gore. 
• June 16, 1999:  "Halfway through this century,'' Gore said, in declaring his candidacy, ''when my father saw that thousands of his fellow Tennesseans were forced to obey Jim Crow laws, he knew America could do better. He saw a horizon in which his black and white constituents shared the same hopes in the same world.''  It was a moving tribute, but with a notable omission: The elder Gore voted against the landmark civil rights legislation of his time, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which repudiated the Jim Crow laws.  Boston Globe, 4/11/00
• July 22, 1999: The Washington Times reports that New Hampshire utility officials were asked by the Secret Service and a river commission to release four billion gallons of water to make sure presidential candidate Al Gore's canoe floated during a photo opportunity.  This was confirmed by the head of the Vermont Department of Natural Resources.  The Gore campaign denied the allegation.  Just after the canoe trip, Gore made a campaign speech where he talked about the environment.
• August 17, 1999: The General Accounting Office says Vice President Al Gore has overstated cost savings for his "reinventing government" project.  Auditors looking at reforms in three agencies say the project claimed almost 22 billion dollars in savings.  But, the auditors report there is no evidence to support such savings.  They also say savings were inflated by double-counting cost cuts, and that credit was taken for savings that may have been the result of other efforts to streamline government.
• October 21, 1999:  The Nashville Scene compiled a list of quotes from Spotted Al on his tour of duty in Vietnam.  Keep in mind that he was a newspaper reporter and never saw any action. 

• October 31, 1999: During a Q&A, Spotted Al brought up the name of ex-Senator Barry Goldwater.  "He's a great, wonderful guy," Gore said. "I didn't agree with his philosophy, although I'm agreeing with it more and more, as he
  seems to be moving to the center these days."  Oh, Spot. Goldwater died in May 1998. (source: New York Daily News)
• November, 1999:  In a Time Magazine interview, Spotted Al commented on opponent Bill Bradley's idea to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit.  "I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that, so I say, welcome aboard. That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time."  The problem is, the EITC became law in 1975, a year before Al was even elected to Congress. 
• November 24, 1999: According to the New York Times, Al Gore claimed he had sponsored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. "Unlike Senator Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it."  The fact is, Gore and Russell Feingold never served together in the Senate. Gore later admitted to the Times that his comment "was a mistake . . . [W]hat I meant to say was that I supported that."
• December 3, 1999: While campaigning in New Hampshire, Spotted Al said the following: "I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. I had the first hearing on that issue," Gore told a New Hampshire high school audience. "I was the one who started it all."  Spot's congressional hearing was long after the place had been evacuated by the federal government.  It had been a national story since before the evacuation.
• December 14, 1999:  Al was asked by a member of a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire what he thought about the rape allegation against Bill Clinton made by Juanita Broaddrick.  He said, "I think that whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the minds of most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his life as President."  In other words, rape is OK as long as you're a good president.
• December 27, 1999: In a story reported by the Washington Post, Gore claimed that he contributed important lines to Hubert Humphrey’s acceptance speech at the 1968 Democratic convention. “Young Gore later often told the story . . . [A]s [he] sat in the convention hall and looked up at Humphrey in the spotlight, he thought he heard his own words coming back to him,” the paper said.   When Gore’s supposed conduit to Humphrey denied the influence, Gore blamed his recollection on “Faulty memory. Faulty memory.” 
• January 3, 2000:  CBS Radio reported that the Y2K bug was virtually nonexistent when the new year clicked over.  One of the few problems was on the site of the man who claimed to invent the Internet.  Spotted Al's campaign web site welcomed visitors to 'January 1, 19100'. 
• February 4, 2000: The New York Times quoted Spotted Al as saying, “We had a huge event with 3,000 people at Ohio State University.” The paper went on to say that “officials at that rally said the room where it had taken
  place did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at 500.” 
• February 20, 2000: New York Times reported that Gore said he has 'always, always, always' supported Roe v. Wade.  In 1977, Rep. Gore voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that abortion 'takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,' and that there is no constitutional right to abortion.  He cast many other
  votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee.  He also sent a letter to his constituents insisting that he was pro-life.
   
• March 1, 2000:  San Jose Mercury News reports the following: Gore was accused of continuing his cozy relationship with "Big Tobacco" even after his sister died of cancer.  "It's not fair to say," Gore insisted.  "I did not. I did not. I began to confront them forcefully. I don't see the inconsistency there."  The truth is, the same month Gore's sister died in 1984, he received a $1,000 speaking fee from U.S. Tobacco. The next year, he voted against cigarette and tobacco tax increases three times and favored a bill allowing major cigarette makers to purchase discounted tobacco. In the 1988 campaign, Gore bragged of his tobacco background. (see story from August of 1996 above)
• March 7, 2000:  Spotted Al, in Nashville for his victory celebration, had no idea that his own state wasn't voting in Super Tuesday when he urged a fellow Tennessean to get out and vote.  As reported by the Associated Press "while two dozen reporters and camera operators watched from the lobby of his Nashville headquarters on Tuesday, he (Gore) called a ``Miss Ferris'' and told her, ``Today is the presidential primary in Tennessee.''  His expression changed as he listened to her.   ``Well, you know, that is right. You are absolutely right,'' he said before hanging up and quickly dialing the next number on his voter call list." 
• March 31, 2000:  The Augusta, Georgia Chronicle reports that "Al Gore can't seem to help but take credit for programs that aren't his.  This time, however, the vice president has stepped on the toes of U.S. Sen. Paul Coverdell, R-Ga, and the good senator is not going to let him get away with it.  What riles our state's senior senator is Gore's claim that he authored the Reading Excellence Act.  Along with U.S. Rep. William Goodling, R-Pa., Coverdell actually wrote and introduced that legislation in 1998."
• May 2, 2000: The Washington Post reports that Gore, in describing the Clinton administration plan outlined in the
  1999 State of the Union address to have the federal government invest some of the budget surplus in the stock market, said "We didn't really propose it. We talked about the idea."  But page 37 of the Clinton administration budget submitted to Congress in February: "The President also proposes to invest half of the transferred amounts in corporate equities." From last year's budget: "The administration proposes tapping the power of private
  financial markets to increase the resources to pay for future Social Security benefits."
• August 8, 2000:  The Fox News Channel's Brit Hume reported: "In his interview with Tom Brokaw, Al Gore was asked about Senator Lieberman's famous statement in September 1998 that President Clinton's conduct in the Lewinsky case had been `immoral.' `Did you agree with Joe Lieberman when he said that,' Gore was asked. `I did and said so at the time,' Gore answered. But a search of records reveals no such thing. Indeed, the first Gore statement critical of Clinton's behavior did not come until June of the following year." 
• September 19, 2000: Addressing a Teamsters meeting, Gore spoke of lullabies from his youth and sang, "Look for the union label."  The song was written in 1975, when Gore was 27. (USA Today)
• September 20, 2000: Associated Press reports the vice president told Florida senior citizens in an Aug. 28 speech
  that his mother-in-law pays $108 a month for the same arthritis medicine he gives his dog for $37.80 a month.
  The figures he used were taken from a House Democratic study and did not reflect his family's own costs. Moreover, the study's figures referred to wholesale prices, not prices paid by the consumer.
• September 26, 2000:  The Washington Times reported: In the aftermath of the Clinton administration's decision to sell 30 million barrels of oil from the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve), Mr. Gore defended the action last Friday, saying that he was in on the ground floor when the nation's defense-related Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established by Congress in 1975.  "I've been part of the discussion on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve since the days it was first established," Mr. Gore told reporters.  In fact, after the oil storage reserve was authorized and signed into law in 1975 — two years before Mr. Gore was in Congress — it was being filled with oil by the middle of 1977, about five months after he became a member of the House of Representatives.
• October 3, 2000:  The first presidential debate between Bush and Gore: About three quarters of the way into the 
  debate, Governor George W. Bush gave credit to the Federal Emergency Management Service (FEMA) for their work in Texas during fires and floods in Parker County.  In typical fashion, Vice President Al Gore said he had traveled to see the damage with FEMA director James Lee Witt, "I was down there when the fires broke up."
  Carl Cameron, of Fox News first reported that Gore had not, in fact, been to Texas with Witt to look at the damage in Parker County.