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

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that
May or may not occur"
— Al Gore

"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton."
— Al Gore

"In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
"
— Al Gore

"The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future."
— Al Gore (Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit)

"you can't be value free when it comes to marriage"
— Al Gore

"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
"
— Al Gore

"Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us."
— Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It)

"The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system."
— Al Gore (The Assault on Reason)

"We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift."
— Al Gore

"Pollution isn't what's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
— Al Gore

"As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."
"
— Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It)

"The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'."
— Al Gore

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

"Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
— Al Gore