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■ President Clinton, at fundraiser for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.): “I’m not running for office, but I kind of wish I were.” … Clinton criticizes GOP budget strategy: “If we were being attacked by space aliens, we wouldn’t be playing these kinds of games.” . . . Clinton, on whether he hurts Gore: “I think a lot of people who may not like me may hold it against him, but I don’t think mature people hold one person responsible for another person’s conduct.” . . . Clinton, at fundraiser for First Lady: “The best gift I can give the American people now is to do my best to make sure that they know the person I love most in the world is without any doubt the ablest, most passionate, most committed, most visionary public servant I have ever known.” . . . On night her favorite American League team wins World Series in New York, Hillary Clinton attends fundraiser 700 miles away in her native Chicago. . . . Next evening, on David Letterman’s Late Show, Yankee players and coaches read “Top Ten Things the Yankees Have Always Wanted To Say.” Pinch hitter Jim Leyritz: “Take off the Yankee hat, Hillary.”

■ Bill Bradley, during Oct. 27 townhall meeting with Gore: “If I’m president of the United States, when it comes to urban public education, we’re going to try this, we’re going to try that, we’re going to experiment here, experiment there.” … Bradley on Sept. 9: “I decided to support vouchers on an experimental basis in several urban areas, in part to test the hypothesis of school-choice people, which is that it will improve public schools. Now we have [standardized] tests going on and I don’t think those experiments are necessary.” … In Iowa, Bradley says, “I remember the exact moment that I became a Democrat. . . . It was Democrats that stepped forward that evening in the Senate and cast their vote [for the 1964 Civil Rights Act] that washed away the stain of segregation in this country.” Yet 82 percent of Senate Republicans (27 of 33) voted for the act, compared with 69 percent of Democrats (46 of 67). One prominent Democratic opponent: Sen. Albert Gore Sr. . . . Boston Globe quotes Gore mistakenly referring to late Sen. Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) as if he were alive: “I agree with him more and more as he moves to the center these days.” . . . Asked which Republicans “could conceivably build bridges for you,” Gore mentions Sens. Ted Stevens (Alaska) and John Warner (Va.)…. Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, on Fox News: “Bradley versus Gore is like shopping for groceries in a Soviet supermarket. What’s the choice?”

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■ President Clinton, at fundraiser for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.): “I’m not running for office, but I kind of wish I were.” … Clinton criticizes GOP budget strategy: “If we were being attacked by space aliens, we wouldn’t be playing these kinds of games.” . . . Clinton, on whether he hurts Gore: “I think a lot of people who may not like me may hold it against him, but I don’t think mature people hold one person responsible for another person’s conduct.” . . . Clinton, at fundraiser for First Lady: “The best gift I can give the American people now is to do my best to make sure that they know the person I love most in the world is without any doubt the ablest, most passionate, most committed, most visionary public servant I have ever known.” . . . On night her favorite American League team wins World Series in New York, Hillary Clinton attends fundraiser 700 miles away in her native Chicago. . . . Next evening, on David Letterman’s Late Show, Yankee players and coaches read “Top Ten Things the Yankees Have Always Wanted To Say.” Pinch hitter Jim Leyritz: “Take off the Yankee hat, Hillary.”

■ Bill Bradley, during Oct. 27 townhall meeting with Gore: “If I’m president of the United States, when it comes to urban public education, we’re going to try this, we’re going to try that, we’re going to experiment here, experiment there.” … Bradley on Sept. 9: “I decided to support vouchers on an experimental basis in several urban areas, in part to test the hypothesis of school-choice people, which is that it will improve public schools. Now we have [standardized] tests going on and I don’t think those experiments are necessary.” … In Iowa, Bradley says, “I remember the exact moment that I became a Democrat. . . . It was Democrats that stepped forward that evening in the Senate and cast their vote [for the 1964 Civil Rights Act] that washed away the stain of segregation in this country.” Yet 82 percent of Senate Republicans (27 of 33) voted for the act, compared with 69 percent of Democrats (46 of 67). One prominent Democratic opponent: Sen. Albert Gore Sr. . . . Boston Globe quotes Gore mistakenly referring to late Sen. Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) as if he were alive: “I agree with him more and more as he moves to the center these days.” . . . Asked which Republicans “could conceivably build bridges for you,” Gore mentions Sens. Ted Stevens (Alaska) and John Warner (Va.)…. Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, on Fox News: “Bradley versus Gore is like shopping for groceries in a Soviet supermarket. What’s the choice?”