Al Gore

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

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.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

I think: the powers like to talk about ‘freedom’ in order to wash the population’s brains.

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.

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.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don’t indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

There was a study that was reported in the MIT Technology Review [in Dec 2015] saying that [in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere] the current average temperature rise is equivalent to moving south about ten meters a day. That’s pretty fast.

The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere… than it exercises… insupportable tyranny.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Much research, including a widely quoted Rand Corporation study of 1994, has shown that prevention and treatment are considerably more cost-effective than the coercive [drug war] measures that receive the bulk of funding. Such nonpunitive measures are also of course far more humane.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

The drug war not only gets rid of the superfluous population, it frightens everybody else. Drugs play a role similar to communism or terrorism, people huddle beneath the umbrella of authority for protection from the menace.