Quotes By Al Gore

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

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.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

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

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

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

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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

A zebra does not change its spots.

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

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

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.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

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.

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.'

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.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

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.

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

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.