Quotes from Al Gore

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

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.

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.

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.

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

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

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.'

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.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

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.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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.

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

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

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

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

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.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.