Al Gore famous quotes

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

#Airplane #Looks #Way

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
-- Al Gore

#Moral #Obligation #Moral Obligation

A zebra does not change its spots.
-- Al Gore

#Witty #Zebras #Political

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.
-- Al Gore

#Country #Integrity #Humility

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.
-- Al Gore

#Inspirational #Cutting #Loss

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.
-- Al Gore

#Long #Climate #Entering

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.
-- Al Gore

#Government #Ice #Sea

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.
-- Al Gore

#Effort #Serious #Details

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Years #Goal #Twenties

Take it from me, every vote counts.
-- Al Gore

#Politics #Vote

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Reality #Your Side #Law

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

#Thinking #Environmental #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.
-- Al Gore

#Years #Land #Civilization

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

#Issues #Political #Moral

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

#Past #Civilization #Done

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

#Civilization #Energy #Expansion

I'm a big fan of #‎ Bitcoin
-- Al Gore

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Wind #Forever #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.
-- Al Gore

#Mean #Past #Together

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

#Country #Iraq #Secret

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

#Editors #Support #Troops

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

#Groups #Shrinking #Global Warming

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Technology #Waiting #Challenges

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.
-- Al Gore

#Country #Two #Long

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

#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]
-- Al Gore

#Climate #Way #Making Changes

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

#Marriage #Values

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

#Children #Future #Vision

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

#Stupid #Technology #Creating

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

#Children #Real #Rain

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

#Children #Believe #Choices

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Political #Culture #Facts

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

#Dirty #Weather #Hurricanes

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

#Paris #Attention #Environment

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

#Special #President #Today

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

#Procrastination #Entering #Warning

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.
-- Al Gore

#Wmd #Iraq #Long

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

#Stupid #Stripes #Racist

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

#Reality #America #United States

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

#Play #Doubt #Energy

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Men #Thinking #Doctors

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#People #President #Way

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

#Mean #Essence #Track

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

#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?
-- Al Gore

#Stupid #Humorous #Sacrifice

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

#America #Remember #Internet

I put all my sighs in a lockbox
-- Al Gore

#Sigh

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.
-- Al Gore

#Thinking #May

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Rain #Men #Air

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

#Party #Believe #Future

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
-- Al Gore

#Mother #Doe #Mother Nature

...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

#Our World #Energy #Causes

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Gratitude #Optimistic #Years

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

#Degrees #Hot #Earth

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

#Stupid #Humorous #Winning

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

#Opportunity #Anticipation #Sometimes

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Children #Men #Symbolism

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.
-- Al Gore

#Cancer #Cutting #Sacrifice

The will to act is a renewable resource.
-- Al Gore

#Energy #Renewable Resources #Resources

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Meaningful #Keys #Able

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.
-- Al Gore

#Commitment #Israel #Scary

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

#Serious #Climate Change #Crisis

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Community #Important #Lockers

I invented the internet
-- Al Gore

#Funny #Internet

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

#Country #Religious #Atheist

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Earth #Assumption #Social

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Space #Scary #Identity

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?
-- Al Gore

#Mistake #Thinking #Two

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?
-- Al Gore

#Law #Decision #Choices

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

#Cutting #Meat #Vegetarian

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Civilization #Healthy #Fossils

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

#Believe #Scary #Purpose

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Spiritual #Father #Scary

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

#Country #Technology #Bridges

(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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#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.
-- Al Gore

#Democracy #Vote #Never Forget

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

#Children #Might #Granted

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

#Wish #Dots #Human Nature

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

#New Relationship #Civilization #Faces

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

#Running #Global Warming #Climate Change

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

#Issues #People #Political

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

#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.
-- Al Gore

#War #Winning #Sight

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

#Reality #Thinking #Long