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
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.
They use one set of books to give away money to special interests and another set of books to pretend that it's not going to do serious damage to Medicare and Social Security,
The shooting of Amadou Diallo, an innocent man, stunned New York City and the nation. I join in urging calm in the wake of the verdict.
I urge Governor Bush to support our proposal to bring this process to a fair, expeditious and truly Democratic ending.
especially in districts where representatives voted to scrap annual reviews and grant China permanent normal trade relations.
There's a good chance the election could be decided definitively by Tuesday night's debate,
The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Thank you, ... We now feel we can write the best possible report for the American people.
As the campaign moves forward and when appropriate, I will have more to say about this.
At the base of our involvement in research lies the trust of American people and the integrity of the scientific exercise.