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2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world. -- Al Gore
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world. -- Al Gore
Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world. -- Al Gore
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. -- Al Gore
It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations? -- Al Gore
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery. -- Al Gore
It's always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis. -- Al Gore
All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list. -- Al Gore
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming! -- Al Gore
I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. -- Al Gore
If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration. -- Al Gore
Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world. -- Al Gore
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering. -- Al Gore
Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party -- Al Gore
It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies. -- Al Gore
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again. -- Al Gore
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 ... -- Al Gore
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. -- Al Gore
Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun. -- Al Gore
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis. -- Al Gore
Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore
Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full. -- Al Gore
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences. -- Al Gore
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. -- Al Gore
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance. -- Al Gore
When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture. -- Al Gore
When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up. -- Al Gore
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country. -- Al Gore
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.' -- Al Gore
If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now. -- Al Gore
Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent. -- Al Gore
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. -- Al Gore
The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing. -- Al Gore
I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either. -- Al Gore
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. -- Al Gore
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. -- Al Gore
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life. -- Al Gore
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?' -- Al Gore
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow. -- Al Gore
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake. -- Al Gore
Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true. -- Al Gore
We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age. -- Al Gore
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. -- Al Gore
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth. -- Al Gore
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. -- Al Gore
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. -- Al Gore
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. -- Al Gore
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. -- Al Gore
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future. -- Al Gore
How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? -- Al Gore
Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. -- Al Gore
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. -- Al Gore
Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now. -- Al Gore
I put all my sighs in a lockbox -- Al Gore
Here's the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck - and some things have changed since the 19th Century. -- Al Gore
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy. -- Al Gore
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. -- Al Gore
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.' -- Al Gore
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. -- Al Gore
We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary. -- Al Gore
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place. -- Al Gore
I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House. -- Al Gore
We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth-is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings. -- Al Gore
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ... -- Al Gore
I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Faith in the power of reason - the belief that free citizens can govern themselves wisely and fairly by resorting to logical debate on the basis of the best evidence available, instead of raw power - was and remains the central premise of American democracy. This premise is now under assault. -- Al Gore
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better. -- Al Gore
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis. -- Al Gore
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest. -- Al Gore
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. -- Al Gore
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. -- Al Gore
The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline. -- Al Gore
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started. -- Al Gore
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin. -- Al Gore
I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable! -- Al Gore
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say 'I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem.' You take action. -- Al Gore
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested. -- Al Gore
There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. Clean coal doesn't exist. -- Al Gore
We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop -- Al Gore
It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling. -- Al Gore
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed. -- Al Gore
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. -- Al Gore
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years. -- Al Gore
Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996 ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side. -- Al Gore
The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both. -- Al Gore
As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."
-- Al Gore
Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. -- Al Gore
I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth. -- Al Gore
The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
A leapord never changes his stripes. -- Al Gore
The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system. -- Al Gore
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply ... let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected. -- Al Gore
The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'. -- Al Gore
Plant trees, Lots of trees -- Al Gore
The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out. -- Al Gore
I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue. -- Al Gore
I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat. -- Al Gore
A zebra does not change its spots. -- Al Gore
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science. -- Al Gore
The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change. -- Al Gore
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it. -- Al Gore
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity. -- Al Gore
Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes ... -- Al Gore
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake. -- Al Gore
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather. -- Al Gore
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. -- Al Gore
Mother Nature does not do bailouts. -- Al Gore
Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it! -- Al Gore
It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that. -- Al Gore
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels. -- Al Gore
As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet -- Al Gore
I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power ... -- Al Gore
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point. -- Al Gore
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug. -- Al Gore
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. -- Al Gore
The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable. -- Al Gore
Take it from me-elections matter. -- Al Gore
[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The will to act is a renewable resource. -- Al Gore
That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many -- Al Gore
There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable. -- Al Gore
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable ... that what we take for granted may not be here for our children -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned. -- Al Gore
I was born a poor black child. -- Al Gore
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century. -- Al Gore
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. -- Al Gore
The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve. -- Al Gore
The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed ... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait. -- Al Gore
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist. -- Al Gore
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'. -- Al Gore
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis. -- Al Gore
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming. -- Al Gore
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. -- Al Gore
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. -- Al Gore
Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. -- Al Gore
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle. -- Al Gore
You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some ... and then there's that little-known third category. -- Al Gore
You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly -- Al Gore
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential ... the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising ... Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself ... -- Al Gore
You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature -- Al Gore
The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates. -- Al Gore
A zebra can not change it's spots. -- Al Gore
I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis. -- Al Gore
You can't be value free when it comes to marriage -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. -- Al Gore
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it. -- Al Gore
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. -- Al Gore
The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement -- Al Gore
Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame. -- Al Gore
I actually thought and believed that the story would be compelling enough to cause a real sea change in the way Congress reacted to that issue. I thought they would be startled, too. And they weren't. -- Al Gore
I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple. -- Al Gore
The center of the earth is about a million degrees. -- Al Gore
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly. -- Al Gore
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. -- Al Gore
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it. -- Al Gore
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws -- Al Gore
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. -- Al Gore
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them. -- Al Gore
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization. -- Al Gore
We are going to have the best educated American people in the world. -- Al Gore
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous? -- Al Gore
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. -- Al Gore
Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. -- Al Gore
I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future. -- Al Gore
I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. -- Al Gore
When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally. -- Al Gore
Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. -- Al Gore
The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. -- Al Gore
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. -- Al Gore
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia. -- Al Gore
Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months. -- Al Gore
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless. -- Al Gore
The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people. -- Al Gore
There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it. -- Al Gore
We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation. -- Al Gore
Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development. -- Al Gore
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful. -- Al Gore
It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics. -- Al Gore
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. -- Al Gore
Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas. -- Al Gore
Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven. -- Al Gore
(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place! -- Al Gore
The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation. -- Al Gore
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations. -- Al Gore
There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation. -- Al Gore
It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period. -- Al Gore
I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival. -- Al Gore
I'm a big fan of # Bitcoin -- Al Gore
The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration. -- Al Gore
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced. -- Al Gore
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally ... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past. -- Al Gore
Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away. -- Al Gore
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand. -- Al Gore
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. -- Al Gore
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. -- Al Gore
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts. -- Al Gore
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets. -- Al Gore
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. -- Al Gore
I would kiss Tipper much longer. -- Al Gore
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information. -- Al Gore
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. -- Al Gore
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis. -- Al Gore
I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off. -- Al Gore
Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose. -- Al Gore
The wind and the sun are free. -- Al Gore
We all know the leopard can't change his stripes. -- Al Gore
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. -- Al Gore
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us. -- Al Gore
What we take for granted might not be here for our children. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him. -- Al Gore
I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis. -- Al Gore
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week. -- Al Gore
I think I may have a future as a disembodied head. -- Al Gore
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
American democracy has been hacked. -- Al Gore
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. -- Al Gore
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. -- Al Gore
Take it from me, every vote counts. -- Al Gore
I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now. -- Al Gore
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change] -- Al Gore
It is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis. -- Al Gore
I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane. -- Al Gore
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry. -- Al Gore
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts. -- Al Gore
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. -- Al Gore
I smoked pot in college and in the Army ... -- Al Gore
Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern. -- Al Gore
