Al Gore Quotes

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.

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."

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

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

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

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.