Al Gore Quotes

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Al Gore

Profession : Vice President

Birth : March 31, 1948

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.

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Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

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I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

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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.

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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

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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.'

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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.

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A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

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When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

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The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

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How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

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I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

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

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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

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It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

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The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

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