Top 250 Al Gore Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world’s consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.”

— Al Gore

2. “The will to act is a renewable resource.”

— Al Gore

3. “The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.”

— Al Gore

4. “You know there’s an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly.”

— Al Gore

5. “ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig.”

— Al Gore

6. “Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.”

— Al Gore

7. “Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.”

— Al Gore

8. “It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”

— Al Gore

9. “Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.”

— Al Gore

10. “In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.”

— Al Gore

11. “The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.”

— Al Gore

12. “Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.”

— Al Gore

13. “What we take for granted might not be here for our children.”

— Al Gore

14. “I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...”

— Al Gore

15. “Take it from me, every vote counts.”

— Al Gore

16. “We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.”

— Al Gore

17. “Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, “What were our parents thinking? Why didn’t they wake up when they had a chance?” We have to hear that question from them, now.”

— Al Gore

18. “We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum – Out of One, Many.”

— Al Gore

19. “That we can be e pluribus Unum – out of one, many.”

— Al Gore

20. “A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

22. “A zebra does not change its spots.”

— Al Gore

23. “I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.”

— Al Gore

24. “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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25. “Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party.”

— Al Gore

26. “If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it’s deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.”

— Al Gore

27. “Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.”

— Al Gore

28. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”

— Al Gore

29. “The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.”

— Al Gore

30. “When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.”

— Al Gore

31. “If the only tool we use to analyse what’s valuable is a price tag, then those things that don’t have price tags begin to look like they have no value.”

— Al Gore

32. “Plant trees, Lots of trees.”

— Al Gore

33. “There are good people, who are in politics – in both parties – who hold this at arm’s length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.”

— Al Gore

34. “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.”

— Al Gore

35. “No controlling legal authority.”

— Al Gore

36. “Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.”

— Al Gore

37. “Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”

— Al Gore

38. “Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an “externality.” This absurd label means, in essence: we don’t to keep track of this stuff so let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.”

— Al Gore

39. “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

40. “Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.”

— Al Gore

41. “Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.”

— Al Gore

42. “Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don’t say: ‘Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?’”

— Al Gore

43. “It’s a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.”

— Al Gore

44. “We’re putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth’s atmosphere. It’s threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop.”

— Al Gore

45. “The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.”

— Al Gore

46. “I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.”

— Al Gore

47. “And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.”

— Al Gore

48. “Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.”

— Al Gore

49. “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

50. “For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.”

— Al Gore