Quotes By Al Gore

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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.

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

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 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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

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.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

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

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.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

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.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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 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.'

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

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.