Gore Quotes

• The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

  Gore Vidal

  Beautiful, Four, Common

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 18, 2011

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• There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

  Al Gore

  Eye, Air, Way

  "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 is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

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  Inspirational, People, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jun 22, 2012

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• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Fake People, Mistake

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

  Al Gore

  Failure, Loss, Victory And Defeat

  Al Gore's Presidential Concession speech, www.americanrhetoric.com. December 13, 2000.

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• When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Your Side, Law

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• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Technology, Creating

  "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

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  The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Objectivity, Media

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

  Al Gore

  Degrees, Hot, Earth

  "The Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien, November 11, 2009.

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• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Cynicism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 08, 2011

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• CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  Al Gore

  Past, Civilization, Done

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• The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, United States

  Gore Vidal (2013). “Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005”, p.3, The Nation Co. LP

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Fashion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

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  Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Voting

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fiction Novels, Doctors

  "Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet". www.washingtonpost.com. March 21, 2007.

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• The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

  Al Gore

  America, Civilization, Risk

  Al Gore's Speech on On Renewable Energy at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., www.npr.org. July 17, 2008.

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• Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

  Al Gore

  Real, Earth, Hussein

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• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Running, Native American

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 17, 2010

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• Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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  Life, Friendship, Success

  Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1973

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• If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Running, Stupid

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• There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

  Gore Vidal

  Practice, People, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1990). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Vintage

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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