Al Gore Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Al Gore
Al Gore Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Al Gore on Wise Famous Quotes.
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
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.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
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]
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.
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.
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.
There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine ...
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.
The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.