Al Gore Quotes

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

~ 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

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

~ Al Gore

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

~ Al Gore

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

~ 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

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

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

~ 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

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

~ 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

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

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

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

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

~ 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

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

~ Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

~ Al Gore

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

~ 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