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Al Gore quotes

Ocupation: Former Vice President of the United States

Life: b. March 31, 1948

Birthday: March 31

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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Topics: Airplane, Looks, Way, Air Travel, Foreign Travel

quote in a time of darkness you don t curse the darkness you light a candle al gore Quotes

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

source: - Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

Topics: Moral, Obligation, Moral Obligation

A zebra does not change its spots.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Witty, Zebras, Political, Stupid Liberal

George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.

Topics: Country, Integrity, Humility, Richard'm Nixon

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

source: - Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

Topics: Inspirational, Cutting, Loss, Inconvenient Truth, Havoc

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

source: - Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.230, Penguin

Topics: Long, Climate, Entering, Environmental Change

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

Topics: Government, Ice, Sea, Melting Ice

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

Topics: Effort, Serious, Details, Timidity

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Topics: Priorities, Secret, Surveillance

...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.

Topics: Years, Goal, Twenties, Combustion

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Topics: Politics, Vote, 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.

Topics: Our World, Imagination, Challenges

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.

Topics: Reality, Your Side, Law, Gore

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Topics: Thinking, Environmental, Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

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.

Topics: Years, Land, Civilization, Persian Gulf, Persian

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Topics: Issues, Political, Moral, Inconvenient Truth, Moral Issues

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.

Topics: Past, Civilization, Done, Co2, Exhaling

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

Topics: Civilization, Energy, Expansion, Enviroment, Enviromental

I'm a big fan of #‎ Bitcoin

Topics: Fans, Bitcoin, Bigs

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.

Topics: Wind, Forever, Energy, Alternative Energy

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.

Topics: Mean, Past, Together

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

Topics: Country, Iraq, Secret, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Democratic Country

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.'

Topics: Editors, Support, Troops, Undermining

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

Topics: Groups, Shrinking, Global Warming

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

Topics: Technology, Numbers, Population

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.

Topics: Technology, Waiting, Challenges, Environmental Challenges, Environmental Change

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

Topics: Country, Two, Long, Causes Of Global Warming

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Topics: Impact, Car, Kind

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]

Topics: Climate, Way, Making Changes

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

Topics: Marriage, Values

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

Topics: Children, Future, Vision

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

source: - "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

Topics: Stupid, Technology, Creating, Really Stupid, Internet Technology

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.

Topics: Children, Real, Rain, Destroying The Earth, Earth Friendly

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.

Topics: Children, Believe, Choices

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Topics: Light, Darkness, Curse

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.

Topics: Political, Culture, Facts, Political Culture, Disturbing

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.

Topics: Dirty, Weather, Hurricanes, Hurricane Sandy

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

Topics: Paris, Attention, Environment, Inspirational Environmental

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Topics: Special, President, Today, Special Education

The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

Topics: Procrastination, Entering, Warning, Appeasement

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Topics: Wmd, Iraq, Long, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Wmds In Iraq

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Topics: Stupid, Stripes, Racist

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

Topics: Reality, America, United States, Unreality

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

Topics: Play, Doubt, Energy

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Topics: Fans, Needs, Regulation

David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Doctors, New Ways Of Thinking

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

Topics: Energy, Demand, Difficulty

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.

Topics: People, President, Way, Inconvenient Truth, Highlighting

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.

Topics: Mean, Essence, Track, Externalities

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!

Topics: Stupid, Humorous, Hands

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?

Topics: Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice, Tough Questions

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

Topics: America, Remember, Internet

I put all my sighs in a lockbox

Topics: Sigh

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.

Topics: Thinking, May

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

Topics: Internet, Founding

Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.

Topics: Rain, Men, Air, Rainfall, Extreme Weather

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

Topics: Party, Believe, Future, Moon Landing

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

Topics: Mother, Doe, Mother Nature, Bailouts

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

Topics: Our World, Energy, Causes, Causes Of Global Warming

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.

Topics: Live For Today, Generations, Alive

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

Topics: Gratitude, Optimistic, Years, Joy And Gratitude

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

Topics: Degrees, Hot, Earth, 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.

Topics: Stupid, Humorous, Winning, I Need You, Dear Friend

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

Topics: Opportunity, Anticipation, Sometimes, Doing For Others

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.

Topics: Clouds, Glasses, Holocaust

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.

Topics: Children, Men, Symbolism, Environmental Crisis

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... 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.

Topics: Cancer, Cutting, Sacrifice, Ovarian Cancer, Yew

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Topics: Energy, Renewable Resources, Resources

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as ***** or crack cocaine...

Topics: Powerful, Addiction, Cracks

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.

Topics: Meaningful, Keys, Able, Vested Interests

The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.

source: - "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

Topics: Commitment, Israel, Scary

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

Topics: Serious, Climate Change, Crisis

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

Topics: Long, Survival, Chance

My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.

Topics: Community, Important, Lockers, Overshadowing, Ironclads

I invented the internet

Topics: Funny, Internet

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

Topics: Country, Religious, Atheist, Public Discourse

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.

Topics: Atheist, Believe, People

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.

Topics: Earth, Assumption, Social, Ecological Crisis, False Assumptions

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

Topics: Reality, Stakes, Magician

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.

Topics: Space, Scary, Identity, Civics

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, Two, Ibsen

I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

Topics: Law, Decision, Choices

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

Topics: Cutting, Meat, Vegetarian

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

Topics: Veins, Arms, Toes

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.

Topics: Civilization, Healthy, Fossils, Inconsistent, Prosperous Future

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

Topics: Believe, Scary, Purpose, Stand For Something, What Is The Purpose Of Life

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.

Topics: Scary, Asking, Earth

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.

Topics: Spiritual, Father, Scary, Disrespected

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.

Topics: Country, Technology, Bridges, Digital Divide, Information Age

(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!

Topics: Country, Adventure, America

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

Topics: Agents, Evolution, Bursting

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.

Topics: Democracy, Vote, Never Forget

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Topics: Children, Might, Granted, Inconvenient Truth

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.

Topics: Wish, Dots, Human Nature, Inconvenient Truth, Inconvenient

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.

Topics: New Relationship, Civilization, Faces, Our Planet, Ecological

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Topics: Running, Global Warming, Climate Change, Running Out Of Time

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.

Topics: Issues, People, Political, Renewable Resources, Moral Issues

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.

Topics: Philadelphia, People, Corporations

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.

Topics: War, Winning, Sight, American Troops

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.

Topics: Reality, Thinking, Long

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

Topics: Grandchildren, Civilization, Way

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

Topics: Moon, Snakes, Space, Euphemism

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

Topics: Decision, United States, Have Faith, Good Decision

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

Topics: Betrayed, Administration, Hunger

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

Topics: Politics

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.

Topics: Thoughtful, Men, Thinking, Decent Man

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

Topics: Sorry, College, Politics, Electoral College

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

Topics: War, Principles, Tasks, Saving The Earth

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.

Topics: Country, Moving, Past, Inefficiency, Human Civilization

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

Topics: Inspirational, Red, Enough, Pageantry, Red Carpet

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

Topics: Culture

I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Running, White, People, Grassroots, State Legislatures

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

Topics: Play, Political, Empowering

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.

Topics: Night, Wisconsin, Farming, Dairy

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.

Topics: Taken, Writing, Needs

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Dna, Dna Evidence, Wrong Guy

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

Topics: Understanding, Human Nature, Optimist

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.

Topics: Oil, Giving, Energy, Gas Prices, Alternative Energy

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.

Topics: Football, Military, Nuclear

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

Topics: Kyoto, Goal, Earth, Kyoto Protocol, Protocol

The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?

Topics: Spiritual, Roots, Understanding, Environmental Crisis

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.'

Topics: Boys, Men, Rights, Racist Jokes

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.

Topics: Tools, Looks, Use

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

Topics: Ideas, Impossible, Form

Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.

Topics: Class, Iraq, Government

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.

Topics: Hands, Creating, Choices, Environmental Destruction

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.

Topics: Country, Struggle, Cutting, Simple Solutions

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.

Topics: Eye, Years, Ice

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.

Topics: Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

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.

Topics: Powerful, Special, Reform

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.

Topics: House, Perception, Climate

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.

Topics: Technology, Police, Essentials, Police State, Monitoring

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Topics: Culture, Peers, Peer Review

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.

Topics: Girl, Rights, Point Break, World Population, Population Growth

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.

Topics: Iraq, Long, Weapons

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.

Topics: Race, Years, Two

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.

Topics: Country, Educational, Moving, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection

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.

Topics: Thinking, Views, Media, American Media, Good Journalism

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.

Topics: Light, Pumps, Heat, Solar Panels, Geothermal

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.

Topics: Believe, Moving, Political, Moving Closer, Tipping Point

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.

Topics: Integrity, Objectivity, America

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.

Topics: Fashion, War, Sea, Renewable Resources, Civilisation

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.

Topics: Time, Creativity, Creative, Fragmentation

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.

Topics: Country, Loss, Land, Wasteland, Rainfall

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Topics: Tree, Humanity, Plant

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.

Topics: Technology, Doctors, Decision, Computer Screen

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.

Topics: Weight, Facts, Obsolete

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Topics: Fake People, Mistake, Care, My Mistakes, We Make Mistakes

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.

Topics: Numbers, Abortion, Belief

There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

Topics: Determination, Believe, Atmosphere, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouses

I smoked pot in college and in the Army...

Topics: Army, Marijuana, College, Cannabis, Smoke Weed

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

Topics: Energy, Usual, Answers, Human History

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

Topics: Change, Feelings, Hurricanes, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

Topics: Positive, Smart, People

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Topics: Ideas, Hands, People, Introversion, Shaking Hands

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.

Topics: Real, Climate, United States, Gore

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Regret, Really Stupid, Latin America

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

Topics: Community, Action, Conceit

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.

Topics: Country, Reform, Wealth, Free Country, Exploits

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.

Topics: Thinking, Play, Roles

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.

Topics: People, World, Spinning, Critical Mass

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.

Topics: Today, Tomorrow, Global Warming, Environmental Pollution, Air Quality

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.

Topics: Discovery, Sky, Oil, China And India, Foreign Oil

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

Topics: Views, Income, Source, Role Of Government, Presenter

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Topics: Popularity, Contests, Popularity Contest

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Topics: Thinking, Personality, Popularity, Popularity Contest, Engaging

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

Topics: Facts, Pleasure, Predictions

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

Topics: Wall, Roosters, Rising

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Topics: Funny, People, Political, Polling, Voter Turnout

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

Topics: Hey, Lame, Goes On, Letterman, Hey You

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

Topics: Government, Law, President

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Topics: Failure, Loss, Political

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.

Topics: Eye, Air, World, Unreality, Arcane

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.

Topics: Real, Coward, President, Real Truth

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Topics: Epic, Years, Weather, Extreme Weather, Avert

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.

source: - "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Believe, Our World, Voice

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Reality, Belief, Collide

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

source: - "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

Topics: Democracy, Immune System, Representatives, Immune, Free Press

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.

source: - "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

Topics: Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues, Enviroment, Enviromental

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

source: - "Year Four at SilverDocs: Gore, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Premieres, and More". www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2006.

Topics: Order, Democracy, Climate

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.

source: - "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

Topics: Summer, Years, Ice

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

Topics: Climate, Planets

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

source: - Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.23, A&C Black

Topics: Life, Hatred, Division

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.

source: - "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

Topics: Thinking, Parent, Generations, Inconvenient Truth, Inconvenient

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."

source: - Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

Topics: Character, Opportunity, Expression, Inspirational Environmental

There's 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're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

source: - YouTube Chanel " SkalaSpike"/ "Gore's Press Conference, APC 10/12/07", www.youtube.com. October 12, 2007.

Topics: Mean, Past, Together, African Proverbs

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Topics: Funny, Tired, Night, Night Vision

The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.

source: - "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

Topics: Drinking, American West, Fire, Glaciers

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

source: - Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.16, A&C Black

Topics: Becoming, Danger, Wells, Informed Citizenry

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.

source: - Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

Topics: Time, War, Struggle, Vanquish, Save The Environment

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.

Topics: Summer, School, Years, Arctic, Emissions

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.

source: - Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.123, A&C Black

Topics: Government, Long, People

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

source: - ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

Topics: Taken, Fire, Ice, Human Civilization

Take it from me: Elections matter.

source: - "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" with Campbell Brown, transcripts.cnn.com. June 16, 2008.

Topics: Political, Matter, Election

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.

source: - Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.263, Routledge

Topics: Fate, Earth, Might

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

Topics: Shoes, Two, Eight, Air Force

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

source: - "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

Topics: America, President, Als, Inconvenient Truth

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

source: - "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Topics: Differences, Climate, Bigs

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.

Topics: Civilization, Atmosphere, Global Warming, Acceleration, Human Civilization

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

source: - Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

Topics: Science, Oil, Atmosphere, Misconception, Cadre

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