Top 250 Al Gore Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.”

— Al Gore

202. “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

203. “I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I’m hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow the newspaper culture to genuinely thrive in the digital age.”

— Al Gore

204. “We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

206. “We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”

— Al Gore

207. “I’m sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.”

— Al Gore

208. “I’m very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I’ve spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I’m entrusted with the presidency, you’ll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.”

— Al Gore

209. “Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.”

— Al Gore

210. “I would kiss Tipper much longer.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

212. “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, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.”

— Al Gore

213. “I drive a hybrid, and we’ve changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.”

— Al Gore

214. “The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.”

— Al Gore

215. “There are only two kinds of politics. They’re not radical and reactionary or conservative and liberal or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says you are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you. The other says the world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men.”

— Al Gore

216. “We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we’re proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.”

— Al Gore

217. “And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.”

— Al Gore

218. “I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.”

— Al Gore

219. “I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it’s really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.”

— Al Gore

220. “I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

222. “Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.”

— Al Gore

223. “To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.”

— Al Gore

224. “I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn’t go to his head either.”

— Al Gore

225. “If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn’t take place, I’m sure we’d have a robust debate about it right now.”

— Al Gore

226. “I’m not trying to top anything. I’m trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.”

— Al Gore

227. “Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.”

— Al Gore

228. “As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet.”

— Al Gore

229. “In a free society, there comes a time when the truth – however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say – must be told.”

— Al Gore

230. “All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.”

— Al Gore

231. “The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.”

— Al Gore

232. “I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.”

— Al Gore

233. “Hey, you know what, I’ve gotta go on that ‘Letterman’ show. That show is so lame.”

— Al Gore

234. “America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.”

— Al Gore

235. “I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people’s lives and the planet rather than destroy them.”

— Al Gore

236. “Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”

— Al Gore

237. “I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

239. “John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that’s ridiculous.”

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

241. “I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.”

— Al Gore

242. “I was in elective politics for 24 years. I’ve made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I’m enjoying them.”

— Al Gore

243. “We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”

— Al Gore

244. “We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.”

— Al Gore

245. “The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”

— Al Gore

246. “I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.”

— Al Gore

247. “There’s lots about politics I don’t feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

— Al Gore

248. “I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis.”

— Al Gore

249. “The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.”

— Al Gore

250. “Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.”

— Al Gore