Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Here are the best quotes we heard from our sources today. (Click through to read the full stories.) Al Gore (pictured above), former vice president of the United States: “Politicians spend 75 percent of their money on 30-second TV ads [and] three-quarters of their time begging rich people for money.” Liz Gaufberg, a doctor, recalling when patients would code—go into cardiac arrest—during her ICU residency in the 1980s: “[I] prayed that they would die so that I wouldn’t have to stay up for two more hours.” Theo Padnos, who was kidnapped in Syria and held for two years by a terrorist group: “In the torture room … there’d be someone hanging from the ceiling, screaming.