Al Gore Quotes - Page 11

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• I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Hunting, Gun

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• Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

  Al Gore

  Science, Weight, Facts

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• Plant trees, Lots of trees

  Al Gore

  Tree, Humanity, Plant

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• One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

  Al Gore

  Country, Loss, Science

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.107, Routledge

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• The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

  Al Gore

  Science, Hands, Creating

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.37, Routledge

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• Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

  Al Gore

  Religious, War, Evil

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Business, Opportunity, Community

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• I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

  Al Gore

  Encouragement, Children, Couple

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Police, Essentials

  "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change". Book by Al Gore, 2013.

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• The American people overwhelmingly want our troops out of Iraq. They want the federal government to take real and immediate action to combat global warming and to significantly expand support for stem cell research. Democrats almost unanimously support the people's wishes onthese crucial issues. Republicans don't.

  Al Gore

  Real, Government, Cells

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• You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

  Al Gore

  Winning, Littles, Categories

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

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• 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

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• I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for president, two for vice president. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

  Al Gore

  Race, Years, Two

  "I've no plans to stand for US presidency again, says Gore" by Rob Sharp, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

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  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

  Al Gore

  Today, Environmental Pollution, Air Quality

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• I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.

  Al Gore

  Condolences, Want, United Nations

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

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

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• There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

  Al Gore

  Views, Income, Source

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

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• Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

  Al Gore

  Girl, Rights, Point Break

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

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  Popularity, Contests, Presidency

  "Gore accepts Democratic nomination 'as my own man'" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. August 18, 2000.

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

  Al Gore

  Party, Years, Oil

  2008 Democratic National Convention Speech, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

  Al Gore

  Together, Needs, Want

  "30 Rock" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2006-2013.

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• I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

  Al Gore

  Play, Doubt, Energy

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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• And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

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  Earth, Assumption, Social

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