Al Gore Quotes - Page 2

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

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

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

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

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

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

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

Take it from me: Elections matter.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

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

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

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.