Al Gore Short Quotes

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

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It was clear to me that men and women were equal — if not more so.

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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

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

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

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The day I made that statement, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

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The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

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We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.

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It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.

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Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

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Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

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The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

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But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking.
That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.

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Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...

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The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

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

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The age-old rhythm of the Earth's seasons — summer, fall, winter, and spring — is... changing as some parts of the world heat up more rapidly than others.

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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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The global environmental 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.

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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

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Although the earth is vast, its most vulnerable point is the atmosphere, which is surprisingly thin. As the late Carl Sagan used to say, it's like a coat of varnish on a globe.

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The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy.

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Disrespect, the feeling that what one has to offer in life has been rejected, the feeling that one has joined history's losers can make us as human beings more vulnerable to evil.

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Social scientists have found that when confronted with either an enormous threat or a huge reward, people tend to focus on the magnitude of the consequence and ignore the probability.

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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.

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