Quotes By Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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

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.

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

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

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

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.

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.

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

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

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

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.

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.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

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.

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.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

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.

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