Top 250 Al Gore Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

104. “Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.”

— Al Gore

105. “As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.”

— Al Gore

106. “It’s an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

108. “Population growth is straining the Earth’s resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

110. “We can’t afford inaction any longer, and, frankly, there’s just no excuse for it. We all want the same thing: for our children and the generations after them to inherit a clean and beautiful planet capable of supporting a healthy human civilization. That goal should transcend politics.”

— Al Gore

111. “The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God’s sakes. It’s not some mystery.”

— Al Gore

112. “We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”

— Al Gore

113. “There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.”

— Al Gore

114. “Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.”

— Al Gore

115. “We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It’s global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.”

— Al Gore

116. “Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.”

— Al Gore

117. “Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.”

— Al Gore

118. “You have to rip your opponent’s lungs out and then move on.”

— Al Gore

119. “The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.”

— Al Gore

120. “The ability of big money to shape perceptions – where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate – is a big factor.”

— Al Gore

121. “We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.”

— Al Gore

122. “The presidency is more than a popularity contest.”

— Al Gore

123. “The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.”

— Al Gore

124. “Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!”

— Al Gore

125. “The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.”

— Al Gore

126. “The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.”

— Al Gore

127. “Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.”

— Al Gore

128. “I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, ‘Hey man, we don’t go for that anymore.’”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

130. “I’m naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.”

— Al Gore

131. “I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.”

— Al Gore

132. “The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it’s mentioned.”

— Al Gore

133. “We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.”

— Al Gore

134. “The task of saving the earth’s environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.”

— Al Gore

135. “Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.”

— Al Gore

136. “One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.”

— Al Gore

137. “The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.”

— Al Gore

138. “I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.”

— Al Gore

139. “The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.”

— Al Gore

140. “It’s as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

142. “I’m passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn’t rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.”

— Al Gore

143. “I’m asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.”

— Al Gore

144. “Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we’re used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.”

— Al Gore

145. “I don’t have the illusion that there’s any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.”

— Al Gore

146. “My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it’s not a political issue, it’s a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that’s a renewable resource, let’s renew it.”

— Al Gore

147. “The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”

— Al Gore

148. “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.”

— Al Gore

149. “As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.”

— Al Gore

150. “This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.”

— Al Gore