Quayle Says He's 'Likely' To Make 2000 Run
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CHICAGO (AllPolitics, August 29) -- Former Vice President Dan Quayle says it is "likely" that he will make a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000.
"I haven't made a final decision and will not until next year," Quayle told the Chicago Sun-Times Friday during a campaign swing for Republican candidates in Illinois. "This is the year that you really lay the groundwork."
Quayle, who served as vice president under former President George Bush and was a U.S. senator from Indiana, took a shot at a prospective 2000 competitor, Vice President Al Gore, when asked about a possible independent counsel investigation of Gore's 1996 fund-raising activities.
"It's going to be very damaging to Al Gore," Quayle told the Sun-Times. "I don't know where the facts will lead. I do know that Al Gore has been around for a long time ... and he knows full well there are some things you can and cannot do."
He also reiterated his call for President Bill Clinton to resign after his admission of an inappropriate relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
"(The American people) may approve of the economy, but they'll never trust Bill Clinton again," he said. "We are now finding that it is more than the economy.... It is also character and leadership, trustworthiness, integrity."
And he said Clinton's reputation has also suffered overseas, which will handicap him on his upcoming trip to Russia.
"You have a crippled American president traveling overseas trying to be a world statesman. And (Russian President Boris]) Yeltsin can think, 'If the American people don't trust him, why should we?'"
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