Quotes By Al Gore

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

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

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

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

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