Al Gore Quotes

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

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

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.

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.

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

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

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

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

I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

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

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

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.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

I'm a born - again atheist.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.