Al Gore Quotes

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

A zebra does not change its spots.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

A zebra can not change it's spots.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

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

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

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.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

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.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.