Al Gore Quotes

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.