Al Gore Quotes

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Al Gore

Profession : Vice President

Birth : March 31, 1948

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.

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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.

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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

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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.

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A zebra does not change its spots.

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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

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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.

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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

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

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

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I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

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

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George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

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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.

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The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

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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.

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Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

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We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

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The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

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