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Quotes by Al Gore

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
– Al Gore
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
– Al Gore
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
– Al Gore
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
– Al Gore
How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
– Al Gore
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
– Al Gore
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.
– 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
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
– Al Gore
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.'
– Al Gore
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
– Al Gore
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
– Al Gore
The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
– Al Gore
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
– Al Gore
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
– Al Gore
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
– Al Gore
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
– Al Gore
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
– Al Gore
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
– Al Gore
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
– 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.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
– Al Gore
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
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.
– Al Gore
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
– Al Gore
A zebra does not change its spots.
– Al Gore
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
– Al Gore