"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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Source: Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 9, 1999.

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Al Gore is an American politician and environmentalist known for his advocacy on climate change and his influential work, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

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