Top 250 Al Gore Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.”

— Al Gore

53. “The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.”

— Al Gore

54. “What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.”

— Al Gore

55. “We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”

— Al Gore

56. “Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.”

— Al Gore

57. “I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn’t he? He’s just unbelievable!”

— Al Gore

58. “The symbolism – and the substantive significance – of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.”

— Al Gore

59. “Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.”

— Al Gore

60. “We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.”

— Al Gore

61. “It seems an easy choice – sacrifice the tree for a human life – until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?”

— Al Gore

62. “The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.”

— Al Gore

63. “I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”

— Al Gore

64. “Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”

— Al Gore

65. “The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.”

— Al Gore

66. “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

67. “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say ‘I read a science fiction novel that says it’s not a problem.’ You take action.”

— Al Gore

68. “The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level.”

— Al Gore

69. “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

70. “We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.”

— Al Gore

71. “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

72. “Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.”

— Al Gore

73. “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.”

— Al Gore

74. “Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.”

— Al Gore

75. “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

76. “I’m not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.”

— Al Gore

77. “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more – if more should be required – the future of human civilization is at stake.”

— Al Gore

78. “Take it from me – every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget – that power is yours. Don’t let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let’s make sure that this time every vote is counted.”

— Al Gore

79. “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.”

— Al Gore

80. “Mother Nature does not do bailouts.”

— Al Gore

81. “There’s no such thing as clean coal. It’s non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it’s burnt. But there’s not a single demonstration project in the United States. Clean coal doesn’t exist.”

— Al Gore

82. “When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.”

— Al Gore

83. “Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.”

— Al Gore

84. “Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”

— Al Gore

85. “We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.”

— Al Gore

86. “The choice to ‘do nothing’ in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.”

— Al Gore

87. “Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it.”

— Al Gore

88. “As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws.”

— Al Gore

89. “If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”

— Al Gore

90. “The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented – and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

92. “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.”

— Al Gore

93. “Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today’s hyper-connected world.”

— Al Gore

94. “I didn’t realize I was in a Buddhist temple.”

— Al Gore

95. “Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.”

— Al Gore

96. “In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.”

— Al Gore

97. “I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase – referred to as the nuclear football – in case it had to be used.”

— Al Gore

98. “I’m old enough to know that a red carpet’s just a rug, and I’ve been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.”

— Al Gore

99. “Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.”

— Al Gore

100. “Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.”

— Al Gore