Quotes from Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

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.

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

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

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

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.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

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.

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

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.