Al Gore Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Meaningful, Democracies Have, Two

• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Imagination

• Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Vote, Never Forget

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

• I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country.

  Al Gore

  Country, People, Starting Over

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Past, House, Political

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

• A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Immune System, Representatives

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

• American democracy has been hacked.

  Al Gore

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Hacked

  Al Gore (2017). “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis”, p.182, Rodale

• American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

  Al Gore

  Ideas, Democracy, Environment

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

• In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Democracy, Age

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

• In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

  Al Gore

  Order, Democracy, Climate

  "Year Four at SilverDocs: Gore, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Premieres, and More". www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2006.

• My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the people are capable of doing. The complication in that simple narrative is that as I got older, the Vietnam War shook my confidence in how our democracy was working. I ended up serving in that war, but it started with a lie, and I was very proud of my father for being one of its earliest opponents.

  Al Gore

  Father, War, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Opportunity, Innovation

• For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

  Al Gore

  America, Democracy, Serious

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

• If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

  Al Gore

  Integrity, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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