The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

In the 2000 presidential election Gore and Lieberman won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500000 votes but lost the deciding Electoral College to the Republican George W. S. But since his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in which he endorsed John McCain for president Lieberman no longer attended Democratic Caucus leadership strategy meetings or policy lunches.