Al Gore Quotes

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

I would kiss Tipper much longer.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that's ridiculous.

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

No controlling legal authority

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.

The wind and the sun are free.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.