Quotes By Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

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.