Al Gore Quotes
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."
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
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.
The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
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.
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.
The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.