Quotes By Al Gore

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

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.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

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.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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.

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

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.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

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.

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

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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

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

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.