Explore Quotes by Al Gore

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

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.

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.

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.

I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!

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.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

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

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

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.

Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.

The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

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.

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

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

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

I put all my sighs in a lockbox

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.