"He is extremely reluctant to admit a mistake, even a small one," New Yorker editor David Remnick once remarked of Al Gore. "Midway through our talks in Nashville, I asked him what was the biggest mistake he had ever made in politics. He paused, made false starts, paused again, and recalled that in the campaign four years ago he had a prepared response for just such a question. But he couldn't remember what it was."
Gore's ultimate reply? "Maybe it was my sugar-subsidies vote?"
[Among Gore's other big mistakes? Suggesting that he had "invented the internet" and that he and Tipper had inspired Erich Segal's novel, Love Story.]
Sources
New Yorker, Sept. 13, 2004, p. 71
