I doubt there is a link to this. I remember hearing it and seeing HW Bush saying this on c-span in the late 1980s or early 1990s when he was president. It is probably archived in your local library newspaper department if you care to look for it.
This was long before I had a computer.
You got it precisely backwards. Gore wanted that, and Bush attacked him for it...and the media attacked Bush for attacking Gore for it.