Al Gore Quotes

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.
Al Gore

Change, Experience, Future

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

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

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.
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Strength, Truth, Courage

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

Change, Money, Future

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

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.
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Energy, Support, High

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

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

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

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.
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Today, Tomorrow, Start

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.
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Law, Facts, Side

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Low, Polls, Fewer

A zebra does not change its spots.
Al Gore

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
Al Gore

Together, President, Economy

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

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

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.
Al Gore

Change, Problem, Become

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

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.
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Political, Democracy, Creativity

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.
Al Gore

Heart, Die, Lives

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
Al Gore

Popularity, Contest, Presidency

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.
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Enough, Opinion, Difficult

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

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.
Al Gore

Eyes, Ways, Front

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Nationality: American

Type: Vice President

Born: March 31, 1948

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