Al Gore > Quotes

“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

“you can't be value free when it comes to marriage”
― 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

“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."
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― Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

“Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.”
― Al Gore

“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
― 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

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

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

“Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
― Al Gore

“The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.”
― Al Gore

“The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”
― Al Gore, The Assault on Reason

“political will is a renewable resource”
― Al Gore