Al Gore Quotes

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

I was born a poor black child.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Plant trees, Lots of trees

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.