Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr.is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Chosen as Clinton's running mate in their successful 1992 campaign, he was reelected in 1996. At the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2000. After leaving office, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.
The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery.
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis.
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.