Al Gore Quotes

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.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

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.

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.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

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.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

The will to act is a renewable resource.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

I put all my sighs in a lockbox

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'