Top 250 Al Gore Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Al Gore

152. “When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up – uncertainty goes up.”

— Al Gore

153. “Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain.”

— Al Gore

154. “The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

— Al Gore

155. “You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.”

— Al Gore

156. “American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.”

— Al Gore

157. “The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it’s worth.”

— Al Gore

158. “American democracy has been hacked.”

— Al Gore

159. “Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it’s a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.”

— Al Gore

160. “The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.”

— Al Gore

161. “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.”

— Al Gore

162. “There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.”

— Al Gore

163. “When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don’t let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.”

— Al Gore

164. “As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.””

— Al Gore

165. “I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.”

— Al Gore

166. “The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

168. “If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”

— Al Gore

169. “You’re going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there’s no petroleum consumed in the process – that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.”

— Al Gore

170. “There are many who would much prefer that the word ‘climate’ never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.”

— Al Gore

171. “Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.”

— Al Gore

172. “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.’”

— Al Gore

173. “As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.”

— Al Gore

174. “Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.”

— Al Gore

175. “It should be lifted above partisanship because it’s a question of survival. It’s a moral issue.”

— Al Gore

176. “Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.”

— Al Gore

177. “Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

— Al Gore

178. “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.”

— Al Gore

179. “I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.”

— Al Gore

180. “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.”

— Al Gore

181. “This is not a political issue. This is a moral issue. It affects the survival of human civilization. It is not a question of Left vs. Right; it is a question of right vs. wrong. Put simply, it is wrong to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every generation that follows ours.”

— Al Gore

182. “There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.”

— Al Gore

183. “The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.”

— Al Gore

184. “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.”

— Al Gore

185. “I was born a poor black child.”

— Al Gore

186. “When you pray, move your feet.” Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even.”

— Al Gore

187. “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

— Al Gore

188. “Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I’ve dug in it! I’ve sprayed it! I’ve chopped it! I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”

— Al Gore

189. “I smoked pot in college and in the Army...”

— Al Gore

190. “Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.”

— Al Gore

191. “My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

193. “We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.”

— Al Gore

194. “I put all my sighs in a lockbox.”

— Al Gore

195. “Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

197. “It’s always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.”

— Al Gore

198. “Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.”

— Al Gore

199. “I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore